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One UI: Add and Customize Any Widgets On Your Samsung Galaxy Lock Screen & AOD
With Samsung’s most customizable skin, One UI, you can seamlessly customize your lock screen as per your wish on the best Galaxy smartphones. It allows you to play with your lock screen and add the most useful widget of your choice, which will help you view all the important information at a glance in no time. Additionally, Samsung’s most essential tool, Good Lock, allows you to add more personalizations to your lock and home screen.
Besides this new add-on, earlier, there was no such option to add any third-party widgets on the lock screen, but now with the Good Lock and the new tool LockStar, it has become possible for the users to add third-party widgets on their lock screen.
In this guide, you will learn how to add the Widgets on the lock screen to make it even more personalized on your Galaxy smartphone.
How to add widgets on the lock screen and Always on Display of your Samsung Galaxy smartphone?
You can seamlessly add any of your favourite widgets on the lock screen using the useful feature LockStar of Samsung’s Good Lock Tool. To those who are unfamiliar, the LockStar is the latest tool added to the Good Lock module. It lets users easily customize their lock screen along with the Always on Display in several ways.
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Customizing your lock screen or Always on display is so much fun. First, you need to install the Good Lock app from the Galaxy Store in case you haven’t done it before, followed by the LockStar application, which you will find inside the Good Lock app. With the update to version 5.1.00.24 LockStar goes further and allows you to add virtually any widget available for home to your screens. As mostly the Good Lock tool is very intuitive and simple to use.
Once you are done with the installation process of the Good Lock app and the LockStar module, you can now head to the steps which are mentioned below:
- Open the Good Lock and tap on LockStar;
- Allow it to access your contacts;
- You will now see the previews of your lock screen and AOD; tap to turn on either or both of the toggles to enable them;
- Select a preview so that you can edit it;
- You can tap on any of the elements on the preview to edit or delete it. For example, while tapping on the clock, you can edit the clock style, delete it or drag and drop it to place it on the screen wherever you want.
- To add a widget, tap anywhere on the screen and click Add Widget.
- Select any of the Third-party widgets and tap on Add.
- Once the widget has been added, LockStar lets you customize it, resize it, drag it to a different position, and even change the transparency of the widget using the tools provided below.
- Tap on Save. Once you have completed the process.
The functionality can undoubtedly be improved in some respects: for example, widgets remain anchored to the clock and are limited to a system-prepared window, so it is advisable to use not too large ones. We are sure that with the next versions Samsung will improve LockStar more and more. A bit like done other times, it is also possible that this is a test bed for a function that will be integrated directly into the One UI with a future version.
In case you can also add widgets to the Always On Display screen, with some limitations. As reported in the app’s changelog, to avoid burn-in issues, widgets are not available when using a clock type taken from Image Clock or one customized with the ClockFace app.
Samsung has brought several new features with the One UI 6.1 update. Despite the hype of some Galaxy AI features, other new changes did not come into the limelight, so in this article, we will discuss some of the useful functionalities that will provide you with a whole new experience of customization.
How to Use Samsung Galaxy AI Copy and paste the object Feature
With the One UI 6.1 update, users will get more convenience while placing the objects in the images; however, it is not limited to only one image, and you can also copy and paste the object from one image to another. To do that, follow these simple steps:
- Open the gallery, then tap and hold the object.
- Once it pops up, you can drag it to another image.
- Alternatively, you can see a copy option at the top of the object; just tap on it.
- Once done, go to the other image where you want to pass the image.
- Then tap on and hold the empty place in the image, and tap on the paste button.
For more convenience, Samsung has also allowed users to paste the images to other Galaxy devices directly if they are working on the same Samsung account.
How to Use Samsung Galaxy AI Enhanced Lock screen customization
Galaxy users have several customization options that bring the ability to give a personal creative lock screen. Now with One UI 6.1, you will receive some new options like effects and frames. With the effects option, you can directly apply different effects to the photo and also select desired frames to apply the effects. To use the effects, follow the below steps.
- First, go to the gallery.
- Choose the desired image you want to use on the lock screen.
- Once you choose the image, tap on the three-dot menu and select’set’image in lock screen.
- Then there will be an edit window where you will see two buttons at the bottom of the screen for effects and frames.
- When you choose the frame option, you can also customize frames.
How to Use Galaxy AI Directly search the images on the internet with Circle
Samsung is the first company to introduce the circle-to-search feature on their devices. With normal usage, you can search any image that appears on your device, and you can also use it to immediately get information about any products by simply clicking photos with your camera.
Galaxy AI: How to use your voice for live text to call for translation
Now users can easily use the live text to call translation on their own by following these simple steps:
- Go to settings and select advanced features.
- Now tap on Advanced Intelligence.
- Here is the first option named “phone
- Now through the text call settings
- Here, you can customize the voice and apply your own.
- Now it will take some voice samples and feed them to a new file, which will create your own voice pack.
If you like to read articles on the internet, you will love the Galaxy AI summarization feature, which will help you quickly read the main concept of the article and also take advantage of on-demand translation of the content into your language.
Initially, it looks like the feature may be available for all the browsers installed on Galaxy devices, but while exploring the feature, we got to know that you can take advantage of the summarization and translation abilities only from the Samsung Internet browser. Let’s learn about how to use the feature.
Galaxy AI Summarize and Translate Feature on Samsung Internet Browser
The summarization and translation of web pages work as an assistant, which works on demand from users, so it suits the browsing assist function. When it arrived, it looked like a premium feature, so there were some rumors that it might be limited to the Galaxy S24 devices, but with the latest development, the expansion of One UI 6.1, the feature was spotted on all the flagship devices released last year.
How to use Galaxy AI Summarize and Translate feature
- First, open the Samsung Internet browser.
- then search for whatever you want to read. When the page loads, tap on the star icon (Galaxy AI icon) in the center of the toolbar.
- Now, pick one of two options. either summarize or translate and wait until it processes. If you want to take a more detailed summary, then you can select the Detailed option, or for a shorter summary, you can go for Standard.
- After the summary, you can also translate the content into the desired language by tapping on the translate button.
It is worth noticing that the browsing assist doesn’t work on all the sites because some sites use paywalls that don’t give access to the AI. However, once you subscribe to the particular site, you can easily do the translation and summarization.
Nowadays, every smartphone user generally uses hundreds of applications on their devices, and due to the large number of applications, it’s a bit difficult to find the desired application, so to make it simple, users have only one solution: manually search for the application with its name using the finder option.
Samsung Swipe Down To Access App Finder
Samsung has rolled out a new update for the Home Up application. With the latest update, users have received some useful features; Finder Access is one of them, which has made app access more convenient. It allows users to quickly jump to the app finder with one swipe. Let’s understand how you can use it.
How to Enable Samsung Home Screen App Finder with Good Lock Home Up
To use the App Finder, your Samsung Galaxy phone should support the Good Lock application and then you need to update the Home Up application to the latest version (v15.0.01.19), then follow the below steps:
- Go to the Good lock.
- Here, select the Home Up module.
- Turn on the Home Up
- Then tap on the Home screen option.
- Here, you will get the Finder access option, then tap on it.
- Now choose any option from the “Home screen” or “App screen” where the feature should be activated.
- Now if you swipe down on the Home Screen to access App Finder.
Note: The latest update for Home Up is only available for Galaxy devices that are running on One UI 6.1 or above. And Swipe Down control centre won’t work after enable this feature.