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One UI 7 Tip: How to customize Home Screen and Widgets on Galaxy S25
The home screen of your phone is the place that greets you first once you unlock it. The home screen also houses all your apps and widgets that you can access by swiping left or right. In this article, we will show you how to customize the home screen layout and widgets on the Galaxy S25 series running One UI 7.
With One UI 7, the Samsung Galaxy S25 improves the user experience with improvements to the home screen settings, offering features such as adjustable app icon sizes and the ability to adjust labels for apps and widgets.
How to set up a Home screen grid
The home screen grid introduced on Galaxy S25 with One UI 7 has been refined to make it easier to create customized layouts and enhance the overall aesthetics of the home screen.
| One UI 6 | One UI 7 |
| 4×5 4×6 5×5 5×6 | 4×6 5×6 |
- Open Settings
- Tap Home screen.
- Tap Home screen grid
- Select the Grid Size to display.
- Tap Done to change the Screen Grid on the Home Screen
Notably, the 4×5, 5×5 grid arrangement will no longer be available in the default selection for devices running One UI 7.
One UI 7 Landscape Mode
Apps and widgets will now have the same appearance in both portrait and landscape mode.
In landscape view, apps will automatically re-align starting from the left corner, with apps taking up the most space. This may cause the grid to reposition depending on the layout you use.
One thing to note is that the ability to edit the home screen in landscape view is restricted, in order to maintain the same layout format in both landscape and portrait views.
- Moving or deleting app icons and widgets is not supported.
- Resizing folders is not supported.
The notable Status bar isn’t visible in the landscape view.
Just swipe down from the top of the screen to see the status bar, and swipe down once more to access the notifications and quick settings panel.
How to turn ON/OFF labels to widgets and app icons
In One UI 6 and earlier, widgets and apps looked wrong when placed next to each other because there was no label on the widget. The One UI 7 update introduces labels for widgets, giving a more polished and cleanly aligned look next to app icons. If you prefer to show widgets without labels, follow the steps below to enable or disable them.
- Open Settings
- Tap Home screen
- Click App and widget style.
- Tap the switches to enable App labels and Widget labels.
How to Change App size
- Open the Settings menu and then tap on the Home screen.
- Here you will see the App size menu.
- The size of the app icons can be changed by dragging the slider left or right.
How to access the notification panel and quick settings panel
With One UI 7, the notification and quick settings panels can now be accessed separately in a single swipe from the home screen. The swipe area for the notification panel and quick settings panel is divided in roughly a 7:3 ratio.
- Swipe down from the top left of the screen to open the Notification panel.
- Swipe down from the top right of the screen to open the Quick Settings panel.
If you want to use the previous swipe gesture to access the notification and quick settings panel, follow the steps below to revert back:
- Swipe down from the right corner to access the Quick Settings panel > select the Edit icon.
- Tap Panel settings.
- Select Together.
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The Galaxy S25 series launched with One UI 7 is a true AI companion that delivers personalized experiences tailored to users’ unique needs, powered by multimodal AI agents that intuitively interpret text, speech, images, and video. One of the most amazing is the One UI 7 Now brief feature on the Galaxy S25 series.
The “One UI 7 Now Brief” feature provides a personalized briefing of selected content that keeps getting updated throughout the day. Here in the post, we are sharing a guide on how to manage the content to show on Galaxy S25 Now Brief.
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How to access Now brief feature
Galaxy S25 users access Now Brief notifications that appear on the lock screen via the Now bar, as well as you can also open Now Brief from the Now Brief widget on the home screen or through the Edge panel.
One UI 7: How to manage content to show on Galaxy S25 Now brief?
You can get personalized content updates on specific topics through small cards that update throughout the day. Here’s how
- Open the Settings app on your Galaxy S25.
- Go to Galaxy AI.
- Find the Now brief option and tap Content to include.
- Now, you have to choose the Content that is most important to display in Now brie works best for your needs.
Now Brief specific topics include:
- Health and wellness
- Travel
- Events and tasks
- Routine
- Digital Wellbeing
- Communication
- Moments
- Gallery stories
- Traffic updates
- News
Specifically, Now Brief is active between the time the user wakes up (6 am by default if no sleep information is registered) and the time he goes to sleep (9 pm by default if no sleep information is registered). However, the timing of Now Brief notifications may vary depending on various factors.
Google Photos comes preloaded on phones from many manufacturers today, offering convenient backup functionality and many features. However, the Samsung Gallery app makes a strong opinion for being the best gallery app from any Android brand today. With One UI 7, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra brings one more feature called Gallery Search.
If you are having trouble finding an image in the Gallery app, the Gallery Search on your Galaxy S25 Ultra phone uses AI to find lost photos in the camera roll by audio command on the Gallery app search option.
Samsung has deployed this functionality with Galaxy AI. You can find any image more efficiently using the gallery. It’s all AI magic and cloud processing gets the job done.
How to use Gallery Search:
Are you tired of scrolling through your gallery and can’t find what you’re looking for? Well, Gallery Search will help you find it in just a few seconds.
- Navigate to and open the Gallery app
- Tap on the Search option
- Tap on the What are you looking for? on the bottom right
- Then Say what you need. For example,
- “Show photo of me drinking a coffee”
- Travels
- Motion photos
This amazing feature is currently available on the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The company may also add it to some older models like the Galaxy S24 series.
In addition to the Search feature, Samsung Gallery offers a variety of features, such as an Audio Eraser, object Eraser, GIF and collage creation, optical character recognition, and many more.
Among these, an Audio Eraser has also been added with One UI 7, which uses AI analysis to isolate and classify sound types and remove noise from videos on your Galaxy S25 series phone. Plus, You can remove distracting noises by adjusting the volume of voices, wind, and other sounds in the video editor.
Samsung’s One UI 7 update is built on Android 15 and has been one of the most awaited software rollouts for Galaxy users this year. Promising smoother animations, smarter AI features, and a refreshed design, One UI 7 beta users can opt for a new app continuity behavior for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 called “Swipe to Continue”.
App Continuity allows users to choose what they want to happen to apps they’re using when they close their phone to the cover screen. In One UI 6.1.1, Galaxy Z Fold 6 users had an “All Apps” toggle through which they could turn app persistence on or off.
Now, Samsung has added new options for app continuity with One UI 7 beta, “Swipe to Continue”, which allows users to swipe up on the cover screen to continue using the app after turning the phone over. If you don’t swipe, the screen will lock after a few seconds.
In One UI 7 Beta, the App Continuity settings screen contains three options:
- Always
- Swipe to continue
- Never
The new App Continuity feature is now available with One UI 7 beta for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 in the US, Korea, and India. The UK will also join the beta testing phase.
Galaxy Z Fold 6 users in these regions can sign up for the program via the Samsung Members app and then download the first beta update from the phone’s Settings Software update menu.
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