How to customise your Samsung Galaxy telephone with the Good Lock app

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

Good Lock permits you to take rather more management over how your telephone interface appears to be like in addition to serving to you to do extra together with your telephone. Whether you wish to design your individual clock face for the lock display screen, change between apps extra shortly, or change the habits of the S Pen stylus, Good Lock might help.

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

The app works by utilizing mini apps known as modules. When you’ve put in these modules by way 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 way of Good Lock — they are going to present up on the highest of the identical display screen you utilize to put in the modules.

When 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 out there. 

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 working and to provide you a good suggestion of what Good Lock is able to. (I attempted them out on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 working Android 13 and One UI 5.1.1.)

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

Once you’ve put in it, it’ll seem on the high of your Good Lock listing of modules. Tap on the entry and allow the toggle on the high of the display screen to convey up the customization choices.

You can now tailor the Quick Panel to fit your personal tastes. 

• Style your individual Quick Panel permits you to change between colour themes. 
• Visibility of Indicator Icons permits you to present or cover components 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 Quick Panel is proven.

There are a number of different choices accessible. I discovered the Quick settings prompt entry toggle change to be useful — flip this on, and all the choice of Quick Panel settings exhibits up straight away. (Normally, 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, offers 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). If you discover the built-in choices a bit too bland and uninteresting, you’ll be able to actually get inventive with your individual designs.

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

Whether you’re creating a brand new clock face or enhancing an present one, you’ve bought loads of instruments at your disposal right here. You can select between font sizes, clock hand types, 12- or 24-hour codecs, totally different colour schemes, and layouts. You can faucet and maintain on particular person components to reposition them, and you’ll import new components — together with GIFs and stickers — utilizing the icons on the appropriate.

If you’ve a Galaxy telephone that helps the S Pen stylus, head to the Make up tab to seek out Pentastic. It permits 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 first choice you’ll see on the display screen whenever you’ve opened Pentastic permits you to change the dimensions and elegance of the menu that seems when the S Pen is lively, so reasonably than the usual listing, you’ll be able to have a extra compact line or a circle. You can even change the pointer icon from the standard circle to an arrow, a coronary heart, and even an animal emoji.

Select Double faucet shortcut to edit what a double-tap of the S Pen does. All 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 together with your Galaxy telephone permits you to customise the default interface in quite a lot of methods, however the Theme Park module on the Make up tab takes the whole lot to the subsequent stage — protecting wallpapers, colour schemes, icon types, and extra.

When you open Theme Park for the primary time, you can be requested for storage permission in order that Theme Park can use the colours out of your picture recordsdata. Tap Start and Allow or Don’t permit. 

Once that’s completed, choose Create new, and also you’ll be requested to decide on a wallpaper picture after which a colour scheme to go along with it. You can select from your individual photograph gallery (assuming you gave permission to do this) or choose from a sequence of free and paid photos.

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

The different tabs within the module allow you to customise the keyboard, the Quick Panel, the amount slider, and the icons utilized by the theme. On the Icon tab, as an example, you’ll be able to change the colours, the dimensions, and the form of your icons. You can even faucet Iconpack to obtain themed icon packs from Samsung and third events.

You can even customise homescreens by way of Home Up on the Make up tab. When you’ve bought these tweaks arrange the best way you need, it can save you them as a profile you may get again to later.

Once you’ve gone to the homepage and toggled Home Up on, faucet Home display screen to seek out many of the modifications you can also make. Here, you’ll be able to 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’ll be able to swipe from the final to the primary web page and vice versa), and you’ll cover the labels that present up subsequent to app icons.

Choose Home Up’s Task Changer as an alternative to switch the looks of the display screen that exhibits up whenever you change between apps. Recent apps could be stacked, proven in a grid, or proven in a carousel, and you’ll present or cover components 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 in the event you’re utilizing a foldable telephone just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 as a result of it will probably handle precisely how apps are displayed on the 2 screens you’ve bought.

For instance, on the Z Fold 5, you’ll be able to select to make the under-display digital camera extra seen, have apps all the time transition to full-screen mode whenever you unfold the machine, and have apps robotically modify as you progress between portrait and panorama modes. You merely faucet the I Love Galaxy Foldable hyperlink within the downloaded module to seek out these settings and extra.

Elsewhere within the module, you’ll discover some toggle switches that make it simpler to leap between apps. Quick launch of the Multi window, for instance, permits 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 have been the app at the moment being considered.

Another useful utility is Nice Catch, from the Life up tab, which is the place you’ll be able to go in the event you assume 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 a protracted listing of telephone occasions you’ll be able to log, from vibration alerts and displayed advertisements to instances 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 can then faucet on the class identify and see its historical past so you’ll be able to retrace your steps. You want by no means miss a pop-up message or name notification once more.