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Home Screen Grid does not exist on my S21U and Easy Mode is not selected.

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userLvm8j4o6ja
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Galaxy S21

Home Screen Grid does not exist on my S21U and Easy Mode is not selected.  I am trying to make the insanely small widgets bigger in the awful One UI 7.  Google Search bar is far too small in scale.  If you try and resize it, it cannot fit on the screen.  The other widgets are also too small.  I have installed Good Luck which is insane as why the **bleep** should I have to install another app to try and get this stuff back to how it was in One UI 6.1.  However still these apps and the Google search bar is too small.

Home Screen Grid does not even show.

Also how do I get the old weather widget back.

Also how do I get it so I can use the old Edge screen select and screenshot options as the insane Smart select plays a stupid slow animation and then you have to draw the box yourself.  This takes too much time. Thanks

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realaud
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Galaxy S21

Let's start with Good Lock.  Good Lock is Samsung's customization app.  You don't have to install it if you do not need/want to customize anything.  There are certain things that Google mandates for uniformity and Good Lock is not only Samsung's way of giving you back control of your interface, its modular format allows you to only download the modules you need and makes for easy and quick updates and additions to the features in those modules instead of having to redesign a whole interface.

Your home screen grid settings should be in settings/home screen.  You have options for setting the grid size, but you get a few more in Good Lock's Home Up module.  I don't have the update yet, but they may have integrated Home Up into its own settings in OneUI7 and moved the grid layout settings there, but if they did not, you will have to download Good Lock and the Home Up module to set your grid size.

 

You will not get the old weather widget back because they updated the weather app design and, along with it, the widgets.  You can always download and use another weather app or you can just choose one of the widgets currently available.

 

I believe the old screen select edge panel is not available any longer on the S series phones, and hasn't been since the 6.1 update because of the advanced AI features.  I still have it on my A54, which does not have the AI features and will not get them.  What are you referring to when you are speaking of "screenshot options"?

 

In the meantime check here for things you can change back. https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Samsung-Apps-and-Services/Things-you-can-change-back/td-p/322806...