Samsung One UI 5.0 Edge Panels: Everything you need to know

Samsung One UI 5.0 update is available for a bunch of Galaxy devices including the flagship, mid-range, and low-budget smartphones. This major One UI version comes with a slew of new features and improvements to provide a next-level experience. In addition, Samsung also enhanced its exclusive Edge Panels with One UI 5.0.

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Edge Panels is a Samsung smartphone’s exclusive feature that allows you to directly access any feature, contact, app, and more through a single touch. You can also use a split-screen view to set up your devices to use two apps on the Edge screen at the same time. This feature is very helpful as well as time-saving. With One UI 5.0, Samsung brings improvements to it, let’s explore them.

Samsung One UI 5.0 Edge Panels 

Panels:

• Apps: You can open any of the apps directly from the panel, as well as customize the apps. With One UI 5.0, you can see the names of the app in this panel.
• Edge People: From here, you can customize contacts to directly access them on the edge panel.
• Smart select: You can select a part of your smartphone screen in an oval shape or rectangular shape as well as make GIFs by recording video.
• Tasks: This panel contains several daily tasks like alarm, stopwatch, creating a new contact, and more. You can also edit your tasks as you like.

• Weather: This panel shows the location, date, time, weather, humidity, and UV index.
• Reminder: You can check all the reminders in this panels
• Tools: From here you can see location details as it uses the Compass tool.
• Clipboard: This panel shows the clipboard manager.

You can edit all the above-mentioned Edge Panels except Smart select, Weather, Reminder, and Clipboard. However, you can download more Panels through Galaxy Store.

You can choose panels to hide content on the Lock screen when you are using a secure lock type, just need to visit Edge Panel >> Three vertical dots >> tap Hide on lock screen >> you can turn on the toggles.

Handle:

Position:

You can change the position of the handle to the right or left at your convenience

Lock Handle position:

Turn on the toggle to lock the position of the Edge Panel Handle.

Style

• Color: Now you can do any color of your choice on the handle of the edge panel, just need to select.
• Transparency: Adjust the visibility of the Handle via a slider.
• Size: Modify the length of the handle by the slider
• Width: From here you can change the width of the handle to thin, medium, or thick

Vibrate when the handle is touched

Turn on this toggle to feel that the edge panel has been opened. When you enable this feature, whenever you touch the edge panel, the smartphone will vibrate.

How to check the latest Edge Panel version?

Now you can easily check the latest version of Edge panels in your smartphone by following a few steps. Visit Settings >>Display >> scroll down and tap on Edge Panels >> About Edge Panels. Here you can see the latest version of Edge Panels.