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Bring back old navigation features to One UI 6.1 and Galaxy S24

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Last updated: February 29th, 2024 at 13:34 UTC+01:00

Samsung's One UI 6.1 update is fantastic overall, but it also brings a few odd changes that might rub some Galaxy S24 users the wrong way. For example, One UI 6.1 removes the old Samsung navigation gestures and leaves only two options: Google's navigation gestures and the traditional on-screen buttons. Furthermore, the gesture hint UI element is now permanently visible.

Many Galaxy S24 users want to bring back the old options, and thankfully, there is a way. Unfortunately, it's not going to work for everyone.

Good Lock comes to the rescue, where available

Samsung heard many Galaxy S24 users complaining about these changes to navigation UI gestures and brought everything back to how it used to be before One UI 6.1. With one caveat: it did so through the NavStar Good Lock module.

NavStar Galaxy S24 users get a new option to “Enable extra gesture settings.” When it's turned on in NavStar, the old navigation gesture options (including Samsung gestures and the ability to hide the gesture hint) are reinstated to the One UI 6.1's settings menu.

Obviously, the only issue to this solution is that it is available only for Good Lock users, and Good Lock is not available in every market. But assuming you can access NavStar on your Galaxy S24, this is the best way to bring back the old navigation settings. Check out our short video below to see this NavStar fix in action.

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