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How to customise notifications and quick settings in Samsung's One UI 7

Samsung has separated notifications and quick settings in One UI 7, but you can change it if you don't like it.

Published 10 April 2025 - 09:41

The most noticeable change in One UI 7 is the separation of notifications and quick settings into two. Previously, when you swiped down from the top of the screen, you received notifications and a small number of quick shortcuts to various functions, and if you swiped again, the quick shortcuts expanded, giving you more options.

Now, different things happen if you swipe down from the right or left part of the screen. This is reminiscent of the iPhone, where you get notifications if you swipe left of the camera panel and quick shortcuts if you swipe down from the right. Several other Android manufacturers have already adopted this, but not Google in its Pixel interface.

In Samsung One UI 7, you mostly get notifications if you swipe down from most of the screen, but quick shortcuts if you swipe down from the battery and coverage symbols in the upper right corner.

This can, of course, be difficult to get used to, and if you absolutely don't like the change, you can revert to how it was before. However, what wins me over with Samsung's solution compared to the iPhone's is that you can switch between notifications and quick shortcuts by swiping left or right. If you accidentally swipe down the wrong menu, you are still just one swipe away from the correct menu.

If you compare the quick shortcut panel between One UI 6 and 7, you gain access to more functions with a swipe, such as a volume control, but for the full quick shortcut menu, you still need to swipe down once more.

If you want to change the quick shortcut settings, either because you want to revert to how it worked before or because you want to set them up exactly as you want them, swipe down the quick shortcuts from the upper right corner and tap the pen.

You can then rearrange the different panels and choose which buttons should be among the quick shortcuts and which of them are visible without needing to swipe an extra time. If you press the Panel Settings button, you can choose between Separate and Together; in the latter case, you return to having notifications and quick shortcuts on the same screen. Here you can also change so that the quick shortcuts are swiped down from the left side instead of the right, if you are left-handed or for some other reason find it difficult to reach the quick shortcuts in the right corner.