Unveiling Samsung Good Lock: Your comprehensive resource for personalizing your Samsung Galaxy device
Good Lock, Samsung's suite of customization tools, continues to offer a wealth of options for personalizing Galaxy phones on One UI 6. With the recent updates in One UI 8, Good Lock has seen significant improvements across several key modules, enhancing both aesthetics and functionality.
Deep Customization of Quick Settings and Navigation Bars
Modules such as QuickStar and NavStar continue to provide deep customization of Quick Settings and navigation bars, maintaining their core functionality on the newest UI versions.
Multi-tasking Enhancements for Foldable Devices
Good Lock's MultiStar now features a "Launcher Widget" optimized for the Galaxy Z Flip 6, transforming the cover screen into a productivity-focused multitasking hub. This widget allows control of multi-window apps without unfolding the phone, enhancing convenience.
Home Screen Customization and Real-time Tweaks
Home Up, a launcher customization tool, received a major overhaul. Users can now directly tweak home screen layout options, animations, and blur intensity in real-time, all without needing to enter the app separately. The new One UI 8 version makes these home screen customizations more granular and integrated.
Expanded Icon Styling Options
Good Lock added fresh styles for app icons, including new visual effects like Film Grain, Duotone, Gradient, and a Glass effect. The Glass effect delivers a sleek translucent look similar to iOS 26's aesthetic, significantly expanding icon personalization options.
Other Notable Features
- Pentastic offers additional controls for the air command menus, stylus pointer customization, and double tap gesture for launching an app or action.
- NavStar offers more flexibility over gesture navigation, including the ability to set gesture sensitivity and choose a different sensitivity for left and right sides.
- Routines+ offers location-based actions and the ability to launch a website or action when the phone is unlocked or a key is pressed at a specific location.
- LockStar allows users to configure the lock screen, moving elements such as the clock, notification ribbon, media widget, and help text.
- QuickStar changes the look of the notification panel, allowing users to choose a custom color scheme and disable certain status bar icons.
- NotiStar allows users to view all notifications received over a day and set a notification storage window.
Continued Evolution
While the detailed One UI 6-specific features are less frequently distinguished from One UI 8 in the current sources, the collective improvements in Good Lock modules introduced with One UI 8 signal a continuing evolution of Samsung's deep customization suite. With backward compatibility and a gradual rollout for devices still on One UI 6, these updates mark progress toward a more powerful, integrated user customization experience with advanced home screen tweaks, foldable-specific widgets, expanded icon styling options, and maintained strengths in quick settings and navigation bar modifications.
- The "Home Up" launcher customization tool, after receiving a major overhaul, now allows users to directly modify home screen layout options, animations, and blur intensity in real-time, all without the need to enter the app separately, as part of the One UI 8 updates.
- The Glass effect, a new style for app icons added by Good Lock in One UI 8, offers a sleek translucent look similar to iOS 26's aesthetic, significantly expanding icon personalization options.
