Samsung Good Lock is getting a major overhaul with One UI 7

2025-01-02

Samsung’s Good Lock customization suite is getting a major overhaul with One UI 7 and it will be available to download globally for all users from the Google Play Store. The news was confirmed by a Samsung representative via a post on the Samsung Community forum and it details the upcoming changes.

Samsung Good Lock is getting a major overahil with One UI 7

With One UI 7, Good Lock will bring a visual overhaul with updated looks for the main app and an additional 15 Good Lock apps and tools, including LockStar, Home Up, NavStar, NotiStar, QuickStar, MultiStar, and Clockface. The forum post also touts “many new features and structural changes” that are currently undergoing internal testing.

Good Lock One UI 7 changelog (machine translated from Korean):

    Home Up

  • Enhanced Home Up accessibility: You can intuitively set up the Home Up function on One UI Home without running the Home Up app.
  • Free Home Item Placement:

    You can freely place items on the home screen without grid constraints.

  • Home screen stickers: You can decorate your home screen to your taste using stickers.
  • Gesture animation tuning and multi-finger gestures: Freely tune the home gesture animations to use gestures the way you want.
  • You can perform gesture actions anywhere on the screen with multiple fingers (multi-touch).
  • Hide Favorites: Hide favorites to make your home screen more spacious and tidy.
  • Custom folders and free placement of app buttons:

    You can set more diverse pop-up folder and folder icon sizes, and freely place app buttons.

  • Edge panel customization:

    New customization features are provided to make the Edge panel more convenient to use, such as viewing more items and scrolling the recent apps area.

  • Taskbar Customization: (Fold/Tablet) Provides various editing functions such as changing the order of app icons in the Taskbar and adding more.

    • Game Booster +

  • To make your gaming experience more enjoyable, the Game Booster team has joined Good Lock.
  • Change game category:

    You can change the category of apps that were not classified as games and therefore did not receive related support to games, allowing you to receive game-related support provided by the device.

  • Gamepad key remapping feature:

    You can remap the keys on your gamepad to any other key you want.

  • GPU Settings (Rotation Optimization / Texture Quality):

    You can reduce the GPU load used for screen rotation in Vulkan games or change the quality of textures used in the game to improve image quality or performance.

    • LockStar

  • Provide a consistent lock screen editing experience:

    Many of you have complained about the inconvenience caused by the structure being separate from the lock screen, so we have prepared an extension of the LockStar function to enable editing naturally within the lock screen editing screen.

  • Routine Gallery (Feat. Galaxy To Share)

  • We have created a new space for those of you who want to show off your routines that are too good to keep to yourself.
  • Routine Gallery:

    You can edit and apply routines created by other Galaxy users to suit you, or share useful routines you have created so that others can use them. You

    can check them in "Mode & Routine" and "Routine +".

    • Wonderland

  • Separate application to lock screen/home screen:

    There were many people who wanted to apply the Wonderland wallpaper only to the lock screen or home screen. Based on these people’s opinions, we now support application to the lock screen/home screen separately.

  • Improved text color visibility:

    App icon titles and status bar colors automatically change according to the main color of the background screen, improving visibility.

    • MultiStar

  • Launch Cover Launcher from Lab:

    Provides a path to launch MultiStar"s Cover Launcher function from the "Labs" menu on your Flip device, allowing you to utilize the cover screen more effectively.

    • Theme park

  • Folder Icon Support:

    This is a feature that many of you have been requesting. Now, when applying an icon pack, you can customize the shape of the folder icon to match the app icon.

  • Custom app icon shape:

    In addition to the 11 basic preset app icon shapes, you can specify the icon shape with an image of your choice.

  • Expanded sticker/wallpaper picker content

    : You can now use a wider variety of stickers and wallpapers when decorating Good Lock.

    • Pentastic

  • Customize Air Command Icon:

    You can set the Air Command icon to any image you want.

    • QuickStar

  • Hide multi-user icon:

    You can hide the multi-user icon that is visible to multi-phone users on the lock screen.

    • Camera Assistant

  • Save videos to external storage:

    Automatically save videos to external storage connected to your device’s USB-C port.

    (Available in Video, Pro Video, Portrait Video, Slow Motion, and Hyperlapse modes)

Source (in Korean)