5 Good Lock Modules That Allow Powerful Customization on Samsung Phones

If you own a Samsung smartphone, Good Lock is a hidden feature that you should definitely try. The app hosts several plugins that can unlock a whole suite of new features. You’re almost guaranteed to find a plugin that will improve your experience, even if you don’t consider yourself a power user. For starters, it can change your camera’s capabilities, make one-handed operations more seamless, and give you even more customization options than the original experience offers.

The best part is that you don’t have to download all the modules; You can install and toggle the ones you want to use and ignore the rest if you prefer the stock experience for specific features. Finally, since Samsung officially supports Good Lock, you don’t have to worry about compatibility either, as Samsung actively updates the suite of custom plugins for each major OS release. Simply update your modules manually in the Good Lock app or through the Galaxy Store.

If you want a nice middle-of-the-road option to add new features that usually require installing a custom launcher while keeping the stock one, you’ll love what Good Lock’s Home Up mod offers. It’s essentially a native tool that lets you dress up Samsung One UI Home with a range of options like changing the grid size of your apps to match widgets, changing the number of app icons you want to place in a space, and the ability to make major changes to your edge panels.

For devices running One UI 8.5, you will find options such as:

• Add stickers and images to your home screen
• Creating gesture animations
• Layouts for your home screen, apps screen, and folder
• Customizing the styles and layouts of your pop-up folders
• Customizing application window type and edge panels
• Editing Your Phone’s Share Sheet

Overall, it gives you flexibility in your device’s screen layout and how you want to use it.

Camera Assistant is a Good Lock mod that you’ll want to install right away if you’re picky about camera controls. Features you’ll find with Camera Assistant that provide additional toggleable and selectable settings for the Samsung camera app include (as of One UI 8.5):

• Lens and zoom switching, such as automatic lens switching
• Focus controls like prioritizing focus over speed
• Shutter options like a toggle for a fast shutter
• Photo effects like turning auto HDR on or off
• Video options like adding HDR10+
• Presets and capture options for Galaxy XR
• Additional mode selection like single take or dual record
• Camera preview customizations

You can think of Good Lock’s Camera Assistant as a software extension of the default camera: it keeps the camera experience largely the same but lets you access new controls in the camera app. Camera Assistant also extends to Samsung’s other budget devices, like the Galaxy A and M series.

Adjusting the audio to get the exact volume you want is sometimes difficult with the default controls. The Sound Assistant module offers granular controls; You can add more increments (steps) by enabling it and also adjust the volume per application. This is a fantastic module to get around the frustration of not having enough precision with sound. Plus, you can enable the volume button to skip tracks even when the screen is off, so you don’t need to interact directly with your Spotify play buttons if you don’t want to.

Some options you’ll find in Sound Assistant starting with One UI 8.5 include:

• Customizing the volume panel by changing buttons and colors
• Media key shortcuts
• Using the Bluetooth metronome with external devices and maintaining media volume when using navigation
• Sound and vibration effects such as customizing vibration patterns, concert hall switches and voice changer
• Multi-sound toggle to allow certain apps to play sound simultaneously with another app

Anyone who strongly advocates one-handed phone use or hopes to master gestures should install One Hand Operation+ from the Good Lock bundle. It adds gesture handles to the left or right side of the screen to enable one-handed operation. The module allows you to customize handles by changing transparency and color, as well as width, size and touch position with sliders. Additionally, controlling the position and size of the grip is crucial to avoid accidental interactions during normal use of your phone. When you don’t need to use your device with one hand, you can simply press the toggle at the top of the module.

Some advanced settings you’ll find in One Hand Operation+ starting with One UI 8.5 include app exceptions, choosing apps that don’t show or use gesture handles, animation toggle, keyboard fit, and the ability to hide the handle in certain places like the lock screen or quick panel. For gesture settings, you’ll find options to customize swipe distance and angles, as well as vibration intensity.

Pairing LockStar with Home Up and technically Theme Park can really transform the look of your Samsung Galaxy. But LockStar and Home Up are the main thing. You can use LockStar to create advanced app widgets for your Always On Display and lock screen, add new clock faces (you can pair it with the ClockFace module to create new designs), and change your lock screen layout. You can also replace the two corner app icons on your lock screen (usually Phone and Camera) with one of your choice. The module also gives you the option to add text and stickers to your lock screen.

The only problem you may encounter with LockStar is that it may ask you to turn off the battery optimization setting while using the module. That said, the battery optimization setting can significantly extend your phone’s battery life, so some users might be hesitant to turn it off.