Personalizing your Samsung Galaxy phone just got a little easier with One UI 9

Samsung One UI 9 is, for a lot of phones around the world, here – and it’s got quite an inventory of handy features. The most eye-catching of these have been One UI 9’s new toys, such as Samsung’s new My Fancam feature, which makes you the main character in your videos. However, some of the best parts of this patch are the UI updates and customization, as they have granted users much more control over the appearance of their Samsung phones.

One UI 9 may not totally reinvent Samsung’s wheel, but the small changes more than add up. Whether it’s a few new toggles or the series of changes to Good Lock and Quick Panel, you can take advantage of One UI 9’s myriad improvements to completely personalize your device. With this latest update, you can take more ownership of your Samsung device than ever before.

To get started with all the customizations available, make sure you have Samsung’s official Good Lock suite and its associated Home Up app; Samsung has added a lot to this area of ​​your phone, and that’s what opens up a lot of new customization. One of the most notable new tools here is the Favorites Background, which can be activated in the home screen area of ​​Home Up. Once enabled, you can tap the option to access the Favorites background settings – which does what it promises: you can add blur and shadow effects, change the image and color, and completely reshape the look of your Favorites area background. You can access a similar fleet of options for the Edge panel by, fittingly, tapping the Edge panel in Home Up.

That’s not all that’s available in Home Up. Since Samsung’s One UI 9 betas started releasing, users have been playing with more and more of these customization options, including new multi-finger gestures in the gesture settings, which let you assign swipes or pinches with a certain number of fingers to certain actions, like assigning a two-finger swipe down to take a screenshot or turn up the volume. You can get incredibly granular here, with a sequence of movements and actions to combine for two, three, four, and five finger gestures.

Customization in One UI 9 goes even further. If you own one of the Samsung phones that received the One UI 9 update, you may want to look at the changes to the quick panel. Now you can tap the Edit icon in the quick panel to access many customization options.

When you change the layout of your Quick Panel, you can drag any item in the area to a different position, tap and drag its right corner to resize it, or remove it entirely. You can press Add a control to bring back the deleted toggles and place them where you want them, or navigate to Panel Settings > Set via the Edit menu to change the different toggles of the separate panels into a unified shade. Additionally, the sizing caps have been removed entirely, so you can resize individual Quick Panel elements as much as you want.