What Samsung Home Up Gestures Are and Why You’d Use Them
Samsung Home Up gestures are customizable multi-finger actions in the Home Up module of Samsung Good Lock that let you trigger one of 27 different shortcuts with two to five fingers and personalize your Favorites dock and Edge panel backgrounds, spacing, and corners on One UI 9.0 devices. If you already live on your Samsung home screen and want fewer taps between you and your favorite apps, these tools are worth the effort to set up. The catch: they depend on the updated Home Up module, which is available through the Galaxy Store for devices running One UI 9.0. Think of this as turning your home screen into a control panel tuned to your habits, instead of the stock layout Samsung ships.
What You Need Before You Start
Before you spend time planning clever Samsung Home Up gestures, make sure your phone can use them. The new Home Up update with these features arrives as version 18.0.0.24 in the Galaxy Store for devices running One UI 9.0. It sits inside Samsung Good Lock, where Home Up is one of several modules the Good Lock team keeps expanding. Once your phone is on One UI 9 and Good Lock and Home Up are both updated, you gain two big upgrades: support for customizable multi-finger gestures and a much more flexible Favorites panel (your home screen dock) plus Edge panel backgrounds. You might be tempted to sideload an APK to get in early, but installing apps from outside official stores can be risky, so weigh that against waiting for the update in your region.
Step-by-Step: Setting Up Multi-Finger Gestures and a Smarter Dock
You’re going to configure two things: multi-finger gestures for quick actions, and a Favorites dock that cuts down on swipes. Plan one or two must-have shortcuts first (for example, screenshot and home), then add more once those feel natural, or you risk building a maze of gestures you cannot remember.
- Update your phone to One UI 9.0, then open the Galaxy Store and update both Samsung Good Lock and the Home Up module to version 18.0.0.24 or later so the new options appear.
- Open Good Lock, go into Home Up, and locate the section for multi-finger gestures, where you can enable support for two-, three-, four-, and five-finger gestures instead of relying only on single-finger swipes.
- For each gesture type you want (such as a three-finger swipe down or a four-finger swipe left), assign one of the 27 available actions so that each movement reliably launches a shortcut or system function you care about.
- Adjust gesture sensitivity and visual feedback so they feel natural: you can tune swipe distance, pick a glow effect color, and add vibration when a gesture is detected, which keeps accidental triggers in check.
- Decide where gestures should work by toggling options like allowing them in full-screen apps, disabling them on the phone keypad, and excluding specific apps where stray swipes would be annoying.
- Still in Home Up, open the Favorites (dock) customization section, where you can apply custom backgrounds to the Favorites panel and tweak blur, shadow, padding, and corner radius so your most-used apps live in a clearly separated dock.
- Customize your Edge panel background in the same way—using solid colors or preloaded images and adjusting spacing between items—so it visually matches the home dock while keeping important shortcuts one swipe away.
According to one detailed changelog, “you can assign two-finger, three-finger, four-finger, and five-finger swipe gestures and map them to any of the 27 available actions.” The hidden pitfall is over-configuring: if every gesture slot does something different, you will fight muscle memory and trigger actions by mistake. Start with a core set you use daily, live with them for a while, then slowly expand.
Tuning the Favorites Dock and Edge Panel to Save Swipes
Your Favorites panel—the home screen dock—is where the best time savings happen. The new Favorites background feature lets you add a customizable app dock to the home screen, complete with adjustable blur and shadow, background image or color, transparency, and corner radius. That means your core apps stand out visually, and you can reach them without scrolling through pages of icons. Background categories like Solid colour, Soft tile, Colour tile, Mint flow, and others give you quick presets if you do not want to design from scratch. On top of that, the update adds similar background support and spacing controls to the Edge panel, so you can align its look and feel with the dock while keeping important tools accessible with a single edge swipe.
Is It Worth Setting Up Home Up Gestures?
If you enjoy shaping your phone around your habits, Samsung Home Up gestures and the customizable dock are worth the setup time. Multi-finger gestures span two to five fingers and offer up to 27 different actions, so they can match a wide range of workflows, from screenshots to navigation. Combined with a Favorites dock that visually separates and highlights your core apps, you reduce the number of swipes needed to launch what you use most. The main thing to watch is complexity: keep your first few gestures obvious and easy to remember, and avoid turning every possible movement into a shortcut. Once your thumbs and fingers learn a handful of reliable moves, your home screen starts to feel less like a grid of icons and more like a set of shortcuts tailored to you.
