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Samsung is pretty well-known for giving its users just about every feature they could want. However, there are even more features on the Galaxy Z Fold 5 that are actually hidden. So in this article, we’re going to go over these features, so you can get the most out of your new foldable from Samsung.
Download Good Lock for the ultimate customization
Good Lock is an app that is limited to Samsung’s own smartphones, and available in the Galaxy Store to download. It’s a must-have for any Galaxy phone owner, and on foldables like the Galaxy Z Fold 5, it really opens a whole new world of possibilities.
Good Lock is the main app, which has a number of sub-apps that you can use to customize your device. Here are some of the more popular ones:
Theme Park: This app will allow you to create a full theme for your phone. Beyond what Material You allows you to do. Adjusting the background of the quick settings, the way the keys on the keyboard look, and even the volume panel.
Pentastic: This is another popular one for the Galaxy Z Fold 5 since it does work with the S Pen. This allows you to change just about everything about the S Pen pointed and Air Command menu. You’ll also be able to create app shortcuts, by holding down the pen button and even double-tapping the display.
LockStar: This one is going to bring infinite changes to your lock screen, which really helps to make this unique to yourself.
NavStar: Not happy with the navigation buttons or gestures that Samsung includes on the Galaxy Z Fold 5? Well with this plug-in app, you can change almost everything. This includes making the navigation hint bar transparent, allowing the back gesture in full screen and much more.
These are just a few of the many different apps available with Good Lock. And the customizations are endless here.
Force apps to transfer from the main to cover display
Using the MultiStar app from the Good Lock application, you are able to force apps to open from the main screen to the cover screen. The other way around works in the main settings for the Galaxy Z Fold 5. But say you have a YouTube Video playing and you want to use the Galaxy Z Fold 5 in tent mode. You need that video to play on the outer display, and this mod lets you do just that.
Go into Good Lock and download, MultiStar. After you download it, go into I Heart Galaxy Foldable. From there, you’ll have find a number of great options available, look for Continue All Apps on front screen and turn that on.
Force portrait apps to work in landscape
The main display on the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is almost a square. Which means that some portrait mode apps won’t work in landscape, even though the resolution isn’t very different. But Samsung has a fix for that as well. You likely won’t need to use this on a lot of apps, but again, one that comes to mind here is Instagram.
You can go into Settings > Advanced Features > Labs > Landscape view for portrait apps, and then select the app you want to work in landscape view. You can turn this on for each individual app. So it’s not a switch for all apps like some other features here. This is a labs feature, so you could run into issues. So it’s important to remember this feature so you can turn it off if need be.
Force all apps to work in split-screen
Let’s face it, some apps are stubborn. One app that comes to mind is Instagram, which doesn’t work on a lot of different display sizes. But, Samsung has a feature to help you with that.
If you head into Settings > Advanced Features > Labs and tap on “Multi window for all apps” this will force every app to work in multi-window or split screen. A lot of apps already work in multi window, but this feature makes sure that every app does so. You might run into issues with some apps having problems in multi window, so keep that in mind here.
Change the refresh rate to get more out of the battery
The Galaxy Z Fold 5 has dual 120Hz displays, which, as you can imagine, does take a toll on the battery. There’s only a 4400mAh capacity battery inside this phone, which isn’t that large, but it does still do quite well and lasts a full day. But if you need a bit more battery, you can switch the screens over to 60Hz.
Just head into Settings > Display > Motion Smoothness, and you can switch from Adaptive to Standard. Adaptive will intelligently adapt your refresh rate from 1Hz up to 120Hz. While Standard will keep it at 60Hz all the time. You might notice a difference with animations and such. But you will likely get a couple extra hours of screen on time with this feature.