Customize your Galaxy phone like a pro

Last Update date : 2024-01-02

Make your Galaxy phone uniquely yours with One UI, tailoring it to reflect your style and optimize performance. Customize colors, choose special editions, and personalize your phone interface, from lock screen to widgets, with Samsung's user-friendly tools. Explore tips to create a truly personal mobile device.

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Would you like a different wallpaper every time you unlock your screen? How about featuring a snippet from your favorite video as your wallpaper? Your Galaxy mobile device empowers you to achieve just that! The possibilities for wallpapers are limitless.

In a matter of minutes, you can design a wallpaper or set up a collection of your preferred photos and videos. The best part is that these visuals will change each time you unlock your screen.

Here's how:

  1. Press and hold the lock screen for a few seconds.

  2. Access wallpaper and style.

  3. Tap Change wallpapers.

  4. Choose the gallery option.

  5. Select the photos or videos you want to use.

  6. Tap Done.

Are you deciding between a digital or analog clock for your lock screen? Let's take it a step further!

One UI allows you to personalize the Always on Display feature, enriching the clock on your Galaxy phones to showcase an AR emoji of yourself, a sticker, or even a photo of your pet! With just one tap, your phone's display becomes a reflection of you.

Here's how:

  1. Access Settings.

  2. Navigate to the lock screen.

  3. Enable Always On Display and tap on it.

  4. Choose Clock style.

  5. Select Image clock.

  6. Customize it to suit your preferences!

Enhance your notifications with Edge Lighting! Personalize the effects, color scheme, transparency levels, width, and duration of the Edge Lighting each time a notification arrives.

Here's how:

  1. Open Settings.

  2. Access Notifications.

  3. Choose Notification pop-up style.

  4. select Brief.

  5. Click on Edge Lighting Style.

  6. Customize your preferences, and tap Done.

Don't limit yourself to customizing just lighting for your notifications; go a step further and personalize your call backgrounds! Set videos from your Gallery or use your AR emoji with various animations. The options for personalizing your call backgrounds are limitless.

Here's how:

  1. Open the Phone app.

  2. Tap More options (three dots in the top right corner).

  3. Select Settings.

  4. Choose Call background.

  5. Customize your call background based on your preferences.

The Secure Folder on your Galaxy devices ensures the safety of sensitive materials on your phone. Instead of displaying an icon labeled "Secure Folder," you can make it inconspicuous among your other apps by customizing it with a Samsung icon of your choice and changing the text.

Here's how:

  1. Open your Secure Folder.

  2. Tap More options (three dots in the top right corner).

  3. Choose Customise.

  4. Edit your file name, color, and icon according to your preferences.

  5. Tap Apply.

The Edge Panel on your Galaxy mobile devices provides swift access to your favorite apps, features, and contacts. With One UI, you can further personalize each panel by adjusting the handle's color, transparency, size, and width to match your Galaxy mobile's theme. This feature makes it incredibly convenient for color-coding panels based on app categories.

Here's how:

  1. Open Settings.

  2. Go to Display.

  3. Enable Edge panels and tap on them.

  4. Choose Handle.

  5. Adjust the preferences according to your liking.

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