Your cheat sheet to personalise your Samsung Galaxy phones

Make your lock screen more personal by customising it in fun and easy ways. From wallpapers to adding a personal message, set your lock screen to make you smile each time you check your phone. Find out what you can do with your Galaxy phone’s lock screen and try them out on your own devices!

1. Press and hold the Lock screen
2. Tap on Wallpaper
3. Choose your favourite wallpaper or photo
4. Tap Done


But let’s not just stop at changing the wallpaper because you can even set up a key feature of your lock screen in the style you like – the clock!

1. Press and hold the Lock screen
2. Tap on the clock
3. Select from the style available
4. Customise the colour schemes according to your preference
5. Tap Done

Did you know you can also add contact information on your lock screen? Whether you choose to use that line to include an emergency contact info, or add on your favourite quote or cute emoji, this is how you can get it done.

1. Press and hold the Lock screen
2. Tap on Contact information
3. Add emoji or a quote, or contact info
4. Tap Done

Let’s add some cute animations as part of your Always on Display feature. From using an AR emoji of yourself or selecting an image that reflects you, you can get creative with this cool customisation!

1. Tap on Settings
2. Search for Always on Display
3. Tap on the toggle
4. Tap on Clock style
5. Tap on Themes
6. Select AODs
7. Choose your preferred AOD image/animation
8. Tap Apply

Up your personalisation efforts with Good Lock! If you do not have this Samsung app yet, it is time to download it! Samsung’s Good Lock gives you many different modules to enhance your customisation process, including making your own theme, creating cute keyboards and icons. Let’s check out what you can do with it!

1. Activate Theme Park module
2. Tap on Create New
3. Select the different features for your theme as per your preferences
4. Double tap back button to save and exit
5. Activate Keys Cafe
6. Tap on Style your own keyboard
7. Stylise your keyboard in different colours and settings
8. Once done, tap Apply and exit

To compliment your newly created theme, you can also customise your app icons in a style that you like. Let us share how you can get this done.

1. Activate Theme Park
2. Tap on Icon
3. Tap on Create New
4. Select the shape and colours of your choice
5. Once done, press the back key twice to exit

Why use words when you can create that perfect sticker to express how you feel? In just a few steps, you can make stickers in exactly the way you want it to be¹. Whether it is from your own pictures, or other images, all it takes is a few taps to personalise the way you communicate.

1. Tap on Gallery
2. Select an image or picture you would like to create a sticker from
3. Tap and hold on the image
4. Tap Save as image
5. Use it in conversations or edit them to images

One of the interesting module that Good Lock offers is Pentastic, which allows you to even personalise your S Pen user experience! Let us share some cool tricks that you can try with the Pentastic app.

1. Activate Pentastic module
2. Customise your S Pen’s Air command, Pointer, Sound
3. Once done, tap Use

Your Galaxy phones can be set up to feature different Modes and Routines² to optimise your days and nights. Mode enables immediate changes to your device settings based on what you have customised, while Routines allow you to automate certain actions based on the Modes you’ve selected, for example, the lowering of your phone’s brightness and Do Not Disturb (DND) activation in work mode.

1. Tap on Settings
2. Tap on Modes and Routines
3. Select from the preset modes or Add mode
4. Choose to set it based on Place or Time period
5. Set up your mode and tap Done

Dislike toggling between screens when you are trying to multitask on your phone? Fret not, because you can set up your Galaxy phone’s multi windows feature and split your screen into different working zones. How can you achieve that level of efficiency?

1. Tap on the first app you would like to open
2. Tap on the 3 lines bar
3. Hold and click on the symbol on top of the app
4. Open the split screen view
5. Click on the app you want to open in split screen

Add a unique and cool touch to your mobile device with Samsung’s Edge Lighting feature that allows your phone’s edges to light up with a customised colour and effect. With the Edge Lighting set up on your Galaxy phone, you won’t be missing those important notifications because the light is sure to catch your attention.

1. Tap on Settings
2. Search for Edge lighting style
3. Select Brief
4. Tap on Edge lighting style
5. Select your preferences and tap Done

Take your cool factor to the next level with call backgrounds that are creative and exciting. You can set an AR emoji of yourself dancing as a call comes in or any favourite video from your Gallery. Your call backgrounds no longer need to be like everyone else’s, because with just a bit of creativity, you can make it totally you!

1. Search for Call background
2. Tap on Background
3. Customise your call background according to your preferences
4. Once done, tap on Set as call background