Samsung ditches its lock screen widget carousel in One UI 7

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• Samsung is seemingly removing the lock screen widget carousel in One UI 7.
• In One UI 6 and earlier, you were able to tap the clock on the lock screen to show a vertically scrolling list of widgets.
• One UI 7 still lets you add some widgets to the lock screen, but they’re much smaller than regular widgets.

Google is finally bringing back lock screen widget support in the most recent Android 15 quarterly update, but Samsung users don’t have to wait, since the company never ditched the feature in its own flavor of Android. On Samsung phones, you can add mini widgets directly to the lock screen or add full-size widgets to a dedicated widget carousel that’s accessed by tapping on the clock. With the upcoming One UI 7 update, though, Samsung is seemingly removing the latter option, leaving only the mini widgets in place on the lock screen.

While digging through the recent One UI 7 beta that Samsung released for the Galaxy S24, Reddit user FragmentedChicken noticed that the “Widgets” page was missing under Settings > Lock screen and AOD. In One UI 6.1.1 and earlier, the page existed to let you “choose useful info to show when you tap the clock on the Lock screen.” It presented a list of full-size widgets you could enable on the lock screen, including widgets for Samsung Music, Weather, Calendar, Clock, Digital Wellbeing, Routines, Voice Recorder, and SmartThings.




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