10 useful swipe gestures for your Samsung One UI 4.1 phone

Your Samsung Galaxy smartphone and tablet running Android 12-based One UI 4.1 offers you multiple features and customization options to let you operate your phone with ease.

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Besides tablets, smartphones nowadays also come with a large screen, take Galaxy S22 Ultra as an example. Using the complete device one-handed is difficult in such a large display. Although Samsung has a one-handed mode that gives you the ability to use your phone on a small screen.

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What if you don’t want to use some features on a small screen? Well, if you are using Samsung One UI, you have the solution for this problem too. The company offers you multiple swipe gestures so that you can just swipe on your phone’s screen to open and use some specified features.

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All this can be done with a single app called Good Lock. The application consists of various modules that will help you personalize your phone in many ways. Among many interesting features, we found One Hand Operation+ very useful.

Samsung Good Lock One Hand Operation+ has many useful swipe gestures that will not only let you use your phone with one hand but will also work as shortcuts to perform some tasks.

This article will navigate you to 10 useful swipe gestures on your Samsung device running on One UI 4.1.

Useful Swipe gestures for Samsung One UI 4.1

1. Screenshots: You can capture a screenshot on a Galaxy device in many ways, such as pressing the power and volume button, palm swipe, etc. But with the One Hand gesture, just swipe with a finger and it will be done.

2. Widgets Pop-up: It opens widgets in a pop-up window for you. You can add any widget according to your preference and can customize it as well.

3. Split-screen view: You may have known that Samsung is bringing swipe gestures to open any app in split-screen view with One UI 5.0, but you already have this ability using Good Lock.

4. Task switcher: Samsung smartphones come with gesture navigation to switch tasks, which could be difficult to use for many. While with this swipe gesture, you can choose any side to swipe and switch the task.

5. One-handed mode: You have to swipe down in the center of the bottom edge of the screen to use one-handed mode. With one-hand operation+, you can just swipe any side to use it.

6. Screen recorder: Samsung Quick settings have a Screen recorder option, instead of following the process of starting it from there, swiping the screen will be easier.

7. Start app in a pop-up: You can choose a specific app you want to use in a pop-up window. And once you use a swipe gesture, the application will open and let you perform all tasks as you do in a regular pop-up window.

8. Quick tools: You are already capable to open quick tools with a swipe from the top of your screen but with Good Lock, you can decide the place from where you want to open quick tools, it will open a pop-up view for you.

9. Auto rotation: Whenever you are watching a video, movie, or show, you can just swipe on the screen to rotate your phone instead of opening the quick settings panel.

10. Torch: Lighting your phone’s torch with a swipe is also a useful feature you can perform when you are in hurry.

These all are some of the most used features of any smartphone. Samsung already has easy ways to perform these tasks but imagine using them with just a swipe on your phone.

How to enable:

• Download and open the Good Lock app.
• Go to the Family section and tap One Hand Operation+.
• Turn the toggle on to use the shortcuts.
• Tap on the Left handle option.
  • You can select what feature you want to use when you swipe straight right, Diagonal up, or Diagonal down.
  • You can also turn on Long swipe so you can use more shortcuts.

• Tap on the Right handle option.
  • Select what feature you want to use when you swipe straight right, Diagonal up, or Diagonal down.
  • Here also, you can enable Long swipe.

You can add 12 features to the swipe screen. Don’t forget to choose the Back key on one of the handles as turning on the other feature on the left swipe will open that instead of navigating your back screen.