Here’s what you can do with Samsung One UI 5 Lockscreen using touch and hold function

Samsung makes lock screen customization easy and time-saving with the latest One UI version. The company added new features and improvements to the lock screen with One UI 5.0, of which the Touch and hold edit function is one of them.

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One UI 5.0 Touch and hold edit function lets you easily edit and customize your smartphone’s lock screen by simply touching and holding on the screen. Although the option is turned on by default, but if you are not able to access it, then visit Settings >> Lock Screen >> Touch and hold to edit >> tap on the toggle to turn it on.

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Lock Screen Touch and hold edit function 

When you easily use this feature by just tapping and holding the Lock screen. After that, the edit mode opened, then you can customize several options for the Lock Screen, check them below.

Wallpapers

This option will directly take you to the wallpaper section from where you can select the wallpaper for the lock screen. You can also apply filters to wallpapers.

Tap on the Wallpaper option >> open any category (Featured, Gallery, Graphical, Colors, Wallpaper services) >> select a wallpaper >> press Done.

Clock Style 

By tapping on the time on the Touch and hold edit mode, you can see customization options for Clock. You can customize the below-mentioned things.

• Font style: Select any one font style for Clock from 6 different options.
• Clock Style: There’re 5 different clock styles given, you can apply any one.
• Color: You can choose a basic color or a gradient color.
• Resize: By stretching and compressing the corner of the clock you can resize it.
• Delete: Tap on the minus (-) icon to remove it.

Notification

From here you can customize some visibility functions of notifications. Firstly you have notification type from the two options:

Icon only

If you only want to see the icons of the apps that have a notification, you can choose this option

Details 

If you want to see the notification in brief then select this details option. When you select this option then 2 new customization options will become visible.

• Transparency: Adjust transparency of the notification background by slider
• Auto-reverse text color: Reverse the color of notification text based on the background color.

You can also delete the notification option by tapping on the Minus (-) icon.

Left Right Shortcuts

You can add left and right shortcuts to easily access apps or some features. Just need to tap on the Right or Left shortcut >> tap on any app to select.

Contact Information 

This option is for important information mainly for your phone number or emergency contact. It shows information such as your phone number or email address on the Lock screen so you can be contacted if you lose your phone.