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One UI 5 Lock Screen Customization On Samsung Galaxy Devices – How To
Last year, Samsung introduced One UI 5.0, which is the latest upgrade of One UI that is based on Android 13. It is the system UI skin of Samsung, which includes all the new features of the latest Android as well as provides additional features for Galaxy devices. The latest update also includes new customization features, which are dedicatedly made for personalizing the Lock screen.
While the users are aware of a Good Lock module, Lockstar was already using the customization service for Lockscreen. Now with the One UI 5.0 and the latest One UI 5.1 update, Galaxy users can easily customize their lock screen without following additional processes. To customize the Lock screen items easily, you have to just tap and hold the lock screen, and you are ready to customize your device’s lock screen.
One UI 5 Lock screen customization
The lock screen of Galaxy devices contains several items, including Wallpapers: Live and Static, Clock, Fonts, Notification, Shortcuts, and Extra texts and emojis. You can easily personalize them according to you by going through the different options; let’s know how to customize them one by one.
Change wallpaper
The most attractive thing about any Lock screen is the wallpaper; whenever you open your phone, you will see the first thing is wallpaper, which makes the first impression of the device, so follow these steps to change your wallpaper.
- Touch and hold the screen
- Click on the pill-shaped icon that appears at the top left of the screen
- Here you will see five different categories for wallpaper, including featured, Gallery, Graphical, colors, and wallpaper services.
In the featured option, you will get new wallpaper if your device is connected to the internet. In the Gallery option, you will get all your offline photos and videos saved on your device. In the Graphical, you will get different types of wallpaper. If you go to the color options, you will see different colors, which you can set as a background of the lock screen, and in the wallpaper services, there are different options available that feature different wallpapers that change after every time you click the power button.
- Now just choose any wallpaper and tap done.
Change Clock style, Font, and Color
The second most important part of any lock screen of any device is the clock, and now you can change its color Font and style easily; just follow these steps:
- First, follow the same step, click tap, and hold on the lock screen
- Now tap on the clock, and you will see different options
- By tapping on the first option containing the number, you will get a different font
- Then you can set its different style by taping any tile containing different style
- In the last, you will see different colors options in the round shape; just tap any of them
- If you have finished all these changes, tap on done it will be set.
How to set text on the lock screen
This option is very useful for those users who want extra security functions; with this, you can add information in the form of numbers or text; just follow these steps to add the text
- Long press on the lock screen
- Now tap on the contact information menu
- When you click on the option, a popup box appears
- Now type anything in the tab whatever you want to display
- After finishing typing tap done.
Changing the Notification Layout
Now you can change the layout of lock screen notifications by following the below steps; you can also hide the notification from the lock screen.
- Tap and Hold the lock screen for a while
- The editing options will appear. Tap on notification icons that appear just below the clock
- Here you will see different options with heads None, Icon only, and Details; if you tap on none, the notification will disappear from the lock screen, while the other two will help you with how you want to display the notification like in the form of an icon or want details as well.
- If you choose the details option, the transparency option will unlock, so you can set the transparency of the notification as you want
Add or change shortcuts for different apps
Samsung always tries to make things easier as much as possible, as you see the different shortcuts options for different apps, the same as you can now do for the lock screen; just follow these steps
- Follow the same Tap and Hold process
- You will see two options at the bottom
- Click any of them you will get different apps
- Just click any of the ones and tap done
- The process will be the same for the other option as well.
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.