This Hidden App Lets you Customise Your Samsung Galaxy Phone

Samsung has been making wonderful smartphones for years.

Nevertheless, the complete potential of One UI isn’t essentially discovered within the system settings, however in an app that many Galaxy telephone house owners by no means set up: Good Lock. Discover out right here what the app can do, which modules are value utilizing, and easy methods to arrange Good Lock.

What’s Samsung Good Lock?

Good Lock is an official Samsung service that acts as a hub for a set of add-on modules. Every of those modules delves deep into a selected space of One UI: the lock display, navigation, the digicam, notifications, multitasking and far more. The result’s a stage of customisation that was beforehand solely out there with customized ROMs.

The app is utterly free, developed straight by Samsung, and is due to this fact simply as safe as One UI itself.

Which Galaxy gadgets is Good Lock out there for?

Good Lock runs on each Samsung Galaxy telephone operating One UI 6 or later. Particularly, this implies:

• Galaxy S sequence: S23, S23, S23 Extremely and newer (together with the S26 vary)
• Galaxy Z sequence: Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 and later
• Galaxy A sequence: Chosen fashions with One UI 6
• Galaxy Tab: Tab S9 and newer

Good Lock is on the market within the Samsung Galaxy Retailer and, because the finish of 2025, through the Google Play Retailer, eradicating a earlier restriction in sure international locations. Nevertheless, particular person modules should still be topic to regional restrictions.

Essential: The person modules should not put in mechanically. You select which modules you want to activate. This protects space for storing and retains the system organised.

Tips on how to set up Good Lock

1. Open the Galaxy Retailer in your Samsung gadget (or the Google Play Retailer).
2. Seek for “Good Lock”. The icon exhibits 4 colored, interlocking jigsaw items.
3. Set up and open the app.
4. Choose the modules you need straight in Good Lock and obtain them by tapping the icon with a down arrow inside a field

Tip: Don’t set up all of the modules directly. Begin with two or three that meet your particular wants.

How is Good Lock structured?

Good Lock itself is solely the management centre. As soon as put in, you’ll see a transparent interface with 4 sections:

• Make up: Modules for visible customisation, reminiscent of themes, lock display and wallpapers.
• Life up: Modules for features and effectivity, reminiscent of navigation, digicam, multitasking and audio.
• Clock: A separate class for clock modules (for instance, ClockFace for the At all times-On Show).
• Extensions: Further modules out there throughout each the ‘Make up’ and ‘Life up’ most important classes.

When you faucet on a module, you may obtain and set up it straight from there, with out having to go through the Galaxy Retailer. In whole, there are at the moment greater than 20 modules out there.

PC-Welt

Theme Park

Theme Park is your gateway to visible personalisation. This module permits you to create your personal themes: colors, icon shapes, background photographs and fonts may be freely mixed. Present icon packs from the Play Retailer may be built-in and managed.

PC-Welt

Since 2026, there has even been an AI theme generator. You describe in textual content what you need your theme to appear to be, and the AI mechanically creates an acceptable color scheme, together with icons and a background picture.

One-Handed Operation

If, like me, you personal a Galaxy S Extremely or Z Fold, you’ve little question already seen that one-handed operation is a problem. One Hand Operation solves this downside with six configurable Edge gestures (three per facet). Every gesture may be customised individually: Again, App Overview, Screenshot, Torch, Notifications and extra.

What makes this particular is that the module works alongside the usual navigation bar, including additional swipe gestures to it.

LockStar

The lock display is the very first thing you see if you decide up your smartphone. Nevertheless, One UI solely permits restricted customisation. LockStar opens up considerably extra scope right here. Utilizing the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, you may freely drag the clock, date, widgets and app shortcuts across the display, in each portrait and panorama orientation. You’ll be able to merely conceal any components you don’t like.

PC-Welt

Notably helpful: LockStar unlocks app widgets on the lock display that Samsung doesn’t enable by default. This implies you may view your calendar, step counter or climate forecast straight on the locked display with out having to unlock your smartphone first. App shortcuts can be positioned wherever you want. Tapping the digicam icon launches the digicam with out going by the unlock course of.

Additionally new for 2026 are animated unlock results. The brand new ‘Swirl’ animation sweeps the lock display inwards as you unlock it, while different kinds reminiscent of ‘Curtain’, ‘Ripple’, ‘Mosaic’ or ‘Wave’ make sure that even unlocking your telephone turns into a bit visible deal with.

MultiStar

MultiStar considerably expands multitasking capabilities. Any app may be opened in split-screen mode or as a pop-up window (even these that don’t formally help it). New for 2026 are app pairs on the house display, which launch two apps concurrently in split-screen mode.

Important for foldable customers: MultiStar controls how apps change between the quilt and most important screens when the gadget is opened and closed. Amongst its options is the flexibility to run any app on the Z Flip cowl display, which is disabled by default.

Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry

Samsung DeX customers profit from choices reminiscent of larger resolutions or greater than 5 simultaneous apps on the related show.

RegiStar

RegiStar is the module for anybody who finds the usual button and gesture navigation choices don’t go far sufficient.

One of the best-known characteristic is the Backtap gesture: in the event you faucet the again of your smartphone twice, a freely selectable app or perform (such because the torch, a screenshot or Knowledgeable RAW) opens. Particularly if the ability button is already reserved for Gemini or the digicam, Backtap offers a useful third management choice that continues to be utterly invisible.

PC-Welt

What’s extra, RegiStar additionally allows you to remap the facet button: double-taps and lengthy presses can every be linked to their very own actions independently of each other. If you want, you should use an extended press to launch a selected app straight as a substitute of the voice assistant.

Much less well-known, however simply as helpful: with RegiStar, you may reorganise the One UI settings menu. Sections you by no means want may be hidden, while incessantly used ones may be moved to the highest. The built-in settings historical past logs all latest modifications made to the system.

NavStar

You see the navigation bar daily, however it’s nearly unattainable to customize it in One UI. NavStar modifications that. Offered you utilize traditional button navigation, you may freely customise the structure, order and color of the buttons, change the background color of the bar and show a further button that permits you to conceal the bar on the contact of a button if required.

When you navigate utilizing swipe gestures, you may modify the sensitivity and lively space for the left and proper sides independently of each other. That is useful if, for instance, you need extra space on the left for the ‘Again’ gesture. You may as well select whether or not the road on the backside of the display stays seen or fades discreetly out of view.

Digital camera Assistant

Digital camera Assistant unlocks hidden digicam options. On the Galaxy S26 vary, the module prompts the 24-megapixel mode, which utilises AI fusion processing: sharper than 12 MP, smaller file sizes than 50 MP. A superb stability for on a regular basis use. Different options embrace the next, amongst others:

PC-Welt

• Focus peaking in Professional mode highlights in-focus areas of the picture in color, which is especially useful when focusing manually
• Interval burst mode permits for timed bursts of photographs, for instance to arrange time-lapse sequences
• Auto HDR prompts mechanically when the digicam detects vital variations in brightness
• Computerized lens choice permits the gadget to decide on the optimum lens itself, relying on the topic and zoom stage
• The Astro Mode shortcut offers direct entry to nighttime images mode
• Customized decision presets will let you completely save your most well-liked megapixel settings and change between them rapidly

NotiStar

Notifications disappear rapidly – typically too rapidly. NotiStar solves this downside with a whole notification historical past that shops all incoming messages till you delete them your self. Even notifications by chance swiped away may be seen at any time.

NotiStar additionally gives a personalised filtering perform: you may specify which apps you wish to obtain notifications from and which you don’t. Key phrase filters make this much more exact: For instance, you may set it so that you simply’re solely notified by a selected app if the message incorporates a selected phrase, reminiscent of ‘bill’ or ‘appointment’. Notifications that don’t meet the filter standards are discarded or just saved within the historical past with out actively disturbing you.

NotiStar can be useful for the lock display. It really works there too, permitting you to manage precisely what’s seen on the locked show. In February 2026, Samsung up to date the module with a revamped notification administration system, which additional improves the overview throughout a number of apps.

Different advisable modules

• Residence Up: Customise the launcher, reminiscent of grid dimension, app drawer and share menu
• Keys Cafe: Keyboard structure, keyboard results and sounds
• QuickStar: Add or take away standing bar icons; open Fast Settings straight
• Routines: Superior Bixby automations with contact macros and app-based triggers
• Wonderland: Dynamic parallax wallpapers with movement results
• ClockFace: Customisable clock for the At all times-On Show and lock display
• Recreation Booster: Gamepad contact mapping, CPU clock pace restrict, recreation intro fast-forward
• Pentastic: S Pen pointer kinds and Air Command customisations (for S Pen gadgets)
• Good Catch: System log for notifications, vibrations and settings modifications