How to customize your Samsung Galaxy phone with the Good Lock app

For those who personal a Galaxy smartphone and also you haven’t already found the Samsung Good Lock app, I’d advocate getting it put in at your earliest alternative. It’s full of tweaks, instruments, and choices that construct on high of what Samsung already places into its One UI model of Android.

Good Lock helps you to take rather more management over how your telephone interface seems to be in addition to serving to you to do extra along with your telephone. Whether or not you wish to design your individual clock face for the lock display screen, swap between apps extra rapidly, or change the conduct of the S Pen stylus, Good Lock can assist.

To get began, open the Galaxy Retailer in your Samsung telephone, then discover and set up the Good Lock app. 

The app works through the use of mini apps referred to as modules. Whenever you’ve put in these modules by means of Good Lock, a few of them will present up as regular apps in your telephone in your common app drawer, whereas others will must be accessed by means of Good Lock — they are going to present up on the highest of the identical display screen you employ to put in the modules.

Whenever you open Good Lock, you’ll see two tabs on the backside of the display screen: Make up, the place you’ll discover customization modules, and Life up, the place you go for modules protecting under-the-hood tweaks. Scroll right down to see what is offered. 

There are too many modules to cowl all of them right here, however I’ve picked out a few of my favorites to get you up and operating and to offer you a good suggestion of what Good Lock is able to. (I attempted them out on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 operating Android 13 and One UI 5.1.1.)

QuickStar helps you to customise the Fast Panel — that’s the gallery of choices that seem if you drag down from the highest of the display screen, protecting Wi-Fi and Bluetooth toggle switches, the flashlight, and so forth. You will discover it on the Make up tab.

When you’ve put in it, it is going to seem on the high of your Good Lock listing of modules. Faucet on the entry and allow the toggle on the high of the display screen to deliver up the customization choices.

Now you can tailor the Fast Panel to fit your personal tastes. 

• Type your individual Fast Panel helps you to swap between coloration themes. 
• Visibility of Indicator Icons helps you to present or disguise parts on the standing bar proper on the high of the show (together with Wi-Fi and airplane mode icons). 
• Use Clock Settings to customise the clock that seems when the Fast Panel is proven.

There are a number of different choices obtainable. I discovered the Fast settings on the spot entry toggle swap to be helpful — flip this on, and all the choice of Fast Panel settings exhibits up instantly. (Usually, one swipe exhibits a number of key toggle switches, and one other swipe down is required to disclose the remaining.)

ClockFace, discovered beneath the Make up tab, provides you entry to a number of clock customizations for the lock display screen and the always-on show (in case your Galaxy telephone helps one). For those who discover the built-in choices a bit too bland and uninteresting, you possibly can actually get artistic with your individual designs.

Launch the module and select between At all times On Show and Lock display screen for which clock you wish to edit. You’ll then be met with dozens of various clocks to choose from—choose any of them, and you’ll faucet the checkmark icon to use it or the pen icon to edit it. For those who don’t see something you want instantly, faucet My Clock and Create New to construct one thing from scratch.

Whether or not you’re creating a brand new clock face or modifying an present one, you’ve acquired loads of instruments at your disposal right here. You’ll be able to select between font sizes, clock hand types, 12- or 24-hour codecs, totally different coloration schemes, and layouts. You’ll be able to faucet and maintain on particular person parts to reposition them, and you’ll import new parts — together with GIFs and stickers — utilizing the icons on the precise.

When you have a Galaxy telephone that helps the S Pen stylus, head to the Make up tab to search out Pentastic. It helps you to change how S Pen interactions look on the display screen and even how the pen works, making it much more of a productiveness booster.

The primary choice you’ll see on the display screen if you’ve opened Pentastic helps you to change the scale and elegance of the menu that seems when the S Pen is lively, so somewhat than the usual listing, you possibly can have a extra compact line or a circle. You too can change the pointer icon from the traditional circle to an arrow, a coronary heart, and even an animal emoji.

Choose Double faucet shortcut to edit what a double-tap of the S Pen does. All of the apps in your telephone and all of the potential S Pen options (from creating notes to magnifying the display screen) can be found to you right here — so if there’s an app you want common entry to, you may wish to add it right here.

The Android software program that comes along with your Galaxy telephone helps you to customise the default interface in quite a lot of methods, however the Theme Park module on the Make up tab takes every thing to the subsequent stage — protecting wallpapers, coloration schemes, icon types, and extra.

Whenever you open Theme Park for the primary time, you’ll be requested for storage permission in order that Theme Park can use the colours out of your picture information. Faucet Begin and Permit or Don’t enable. 

As soon as that’s executed, choose Create new, and also you’ll be requested to decide on a wallpaper picture after which a coloration scheme to go together with it. You’ll be able to select from your individual picture gallery (assuming you gave permission to try this) or choose from a collection of free and paid pictures.

You’ll see previews of how the theme goes to look alongside the way in which, and you’ll apply the theme by tapping the set up icon within the top-right nook (It seems to be like a downward arrow going right into a tray.)

The opposite tabs within the module allow you to customise the keyboard, the Fast Panel, the amount slider, and the icons utilized by the theme. On the Icon tab, as an illustration, you possibly can change the colours, the scale, and the form of your icons. You too can faucet Iconpack to obtain themed icon packs from Samsung and third events.

You too can customise homescreens by way of Residence Up on the Make up tab. Whenever you’ve acquired these tweaks arrange the way in which you need, it can save you them as a profile you may get again to later.

When you’ve gone to the homepage and toggled Residence Up on, faucet Residence display screen to search out many of the modifications you may make. Right here, you possibly can change the grid spacing of the icons in your homescreens and the app drawer, have your homescreens work as a loop (in different phrases, you possibly can swipe from the final to the primary web page and vice versa), and you’ll disguise the labels that present up subsequent to app icons.

Select Residence Up’s Activity Changer as an alternative to change the looks of the display screen that exhibits up if you swap between apps. Current apps might be stacked, proven in a grid, or proven in a carousel, and you’ll present or disguise parts just like the search bar and the advisable apps listing.

MultiStar, on the Life up tab, is a helpful enhancement for the multitasking performance already constructed into Android and Samsung’s One UI. It’s significantly useful if you happen to’re utilizing a foldable telephone just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 as a result of it could handle precisely how apps are displayed on the 2 screens you’ve acquired.

For instance, on the Z Fold 5, you possibly can select to make the under-display digicam extra seen, have apps all the time transition to full-screen mode if you unfold the gadget, and have apps routinely alter as you progress between portrait and panorama modes. You merely faucet the I Love Galaxy Foldable hyperlink within the downloaded module to search out these settings and extra.

Elsewhere within the module, you’ll discover some toggle switches that make it simpler to leap between apps. Fast launch of the Multi window, for instance, helps you to launch the multitasking interface by urgent and holding on the Recents button, whereas Multi Focus units apps to all the time run as in the event that they had been the app at present being seen.

One other helpful utility is Good Catch, from the Life up tab, which is the place you possibly can go if you happen to suppose you’ve missed a notification in your telephone or can’t keep in mind an warn you solely glanced at. It’s additionally helpful for troubleshooting issues in your telephone.

Open up the module and toggle it on, and also you’ll see an extended listing of telephone occasions you possibly can log, from vibration alerts and displayed adverts to occasions when the amount was muted. There’s even the choice to report each time a change is made to the telephone settings.

You faucet on the toggle switches to show every occasion class on and off. You’ll be able to then faucet on the class title and see its historical past so you possibly can retrace your steps. You want by no means miss a pop-up message or name notification once more.