7 excellent Good Lock features I’d like to see in Samsung One UI

Samsung One UI is totally full of options, however what when you want much more performance in your Galaxy telephone? Properly, that’s the place the corporate’s Good Lock suite of apps is available in. Good Lock apps convey further settings and options to Samsung telephones just like the Galaxy S25 collection. Want extra digicam settings and tweaks? Obtain the Digital camera Assistant app. Need to fine-tune your audio settings? That’s what Sound Assistant permits you to do.

In saying so, there are a couple of settings and options present in Good Lock apps that shouldn’t be hidden in a specialty app that solely geeks learn about and that I’d prefer to see constructed into Samsung One UI. Listed below are my picks.

I’m a sucker for per-app quantity controls, which permit me to independently regulate every app’s quantity output. I’ve seen Xiaomi, Vivo, and others undertake this performance of their Android skins, and Samsung gives this characteristic, too, however I must obtain the Sound Assistant app to get it.

I do favor Samsung’s strategy, although, which lets me regulate the amount of particular apps through a listing in Sound Assistant with out really opening every app first. Against this, per-app quantity controls in different Android skins usually require you to launch the apps in query after which regulate the amount.

In any occasion, I’d positively prefer to see per-app quantity controls come to One UI out of the field. That is notably useful when you’re like me and solely actually take heed to audio in particular apps (e.g. YouTube, YouTube Music, and podcast apps), and like the others to stay silent.

One subject with the previous few Galaxy Extremely telephones has been the unhealthy shutter lag delay when snapping images, which takes images half a second later than you supposed. Fortuitously, Samsung offers us a Fast Faucet Shutter toggle to assist mitigate this drawback within the Digital camera Assistant app and snap the second once we want it.

This toggle successfully reduces shutter lag by taking your picture as quickly as you press the digicam shutter key reasonably than once you raise your finger. It’s positively helpful when you steadily take images of pets, youngsters, and different fast-moving topics, and don’t wish to miss the second as I typically do after I’m carrying my Samsung telephone. It deserves to be built-in into Samsung’s digicam, not in a separate add-on app.

The QuickStar app is one other welcome addition to the armada of Good Lock apps, letting you customise your fast settings panel and extra. My colleague and Samsung fanatic Zac Kew-Denniss notably likes one in all its options — the choice to point out or cover particular standing bar icons.

This feature means he can cover icons like alarm, sound profiles, location, VPN, and extra. You possibly can even cover icons associated to your mobile sign, IMS community (e.g. 4G, voLTE), Wi-Fi, airplane mode, and NFC. Zac factors out that this selection was really accessible in inventory Android again within the Marshmallow days, so it will really be a case of Samsung bringing this again to the place it belongs.

Samsung additionally has the Keys Cafe app as a part of its Good Lock suite, and this app allows you to customise the Samsung Keyboard in varied methods. This extends to animations, themes, sounds, and extra. Nonetheless, one characteristic I’d prefer to see in Samsung Keyboard itself is the choice to show off the Delete accelerator.

You possibly can maintain down the backspace key in lots of keyboard apps to delete passages of textual content, with the deletion velocity growing the longer you maintain the important thing. However the Flip off delete accelerator choice in Keys Cafe lets me disable this conduct, giving me a relentless delete velocity regardless of how lengthy I’m holding the backspace button. It’s not for everybody, however it may be useful for some customers, particularly if, like me, you’ve beforehand written paragraphs of textual content and located your self by accident deleting the entire thing as a substitute of only a few sentences.

Right now’s smartphones are considerably bigger than gadgets from 10 years in the past, so I completely perceive when you discover system navigation to be a ache, particularly from the corners or prime notification bar. Fortuitously, Samsung’s One Hand Operation+ app makes life a bit of simpler.

The app allows you to allow a novel gesture navigation system that makes use of the again gesture (swiping inward from the left or proper fringe of the show). A regular inward swipe allows you to return by default, as you’d count on. Nonetheless, you may also map diagonal inward swipes (i.e. diagonally up or diagonally down) to varied actions. These actions embrace opening the Recents menu, going residence, adjusting quantity, activating the split-screen view, toggling the flashlight, and extra. You possibly can even select to remap the usual again gesture when you’d like. And that’s with out mentioning the flexibility to customise the scale and place of the swipe space or the non-obligatory long-swipe actions.

It’s a really cool navigation technique, and I’d actually prefer to see it in One UI at massive. So, I’m protecting my fingers crossed that Samsung listens and integrates this into its core software program.

Like nearly all Android producers, Samsung allows you to swap out the default icons for a special icon pack. However what if you wish to customise the form and colour of the default icons? You possibly can’t do that through One UI, so that you’ll must obtain the Theme Park app.

That is fairly annoying as many OEMs let me customise the form and colour of the default icons straight out of the field. It could be nice (and overdue) if Samsung added this to the prevailing wallpaper and elegance menu in One UI. My colleague Zac would additionally prefer to see extra strong icon pack performance within the core One UI software program. That’s as a result of Theme Park allows you to use icon packs you’ve downloaded from different sources, whereas One UI restricts you to icon packs from the Galaxy Retailer.

Samsung’s House Up app allows you to customise your telephone’s residence display screen and folders, but it surely additionally allows you to edit the appear and feel of the Job Changer/Recents menu. You possibly can select one in all 5 diverse Job Changer types — I fairly just like the Stack fashion seen within the first picture — whereas additionally selecting whether or not or to not present app labels and the search bar on this menu.

I’d like to see a minimum of a few of these Job Changer types constructed proper into One UI. In any case, a couple of rival Android skins allow you to swap between a few multitasking menu types, so why not Samsung, too?