This new update required me to completely redo all of my settings. Many things are harder to use and to read such as the battery percentage because it is now a black spot with white text... the now bar is frustrating. Instead of having my media (Spotify) at the top of the notifications area, it is much smaller on the bottom with less options. Only certain widgets can be put on the lock screen with notifications and it is not one of them. They added another row of apps once again making things smaller and more compact. Does anyone at least know a way to get rid of the now bar?
Go to settings, Now Bar, turn it off. When doing this you will only see the media player on the Quick Panel. Media player is easily expanded by tapping on the left-hand side.
Screen grid size you can adjust by downloading the Goodlock app from the Galaxy Store, then installing the HomeUp module. There you can pick from 4×4 to 7x7 and anything in between.
If I disable now bar, then none of my "live notifications " show up anywhere on the lock screen like it used to. Confined to the access panel is stupid, and I have to do more steps to do what I could do just by turning on my screen before. It is a ridiculous addition, and I can't turn it off to go back to how it used to work PROPERLY before.
I think if you tap on the player in the now bar it will enlarge it. I know Samsung Music would do this when I had the media player on the now bar. I hated the fact that when I was on the home screen a medial shaped pill showed up at the top by the clock and only way to turn it off was turning off media player in Now bar settings.
I'm right there with you. The now bar was a total fail. I showed some family and friends how frustrating it is and they laughed, they're all iphone users. This just feels like an android miss and I'm looking forward to changing it back to something like it was in the past.
