Always On Display no longer customizable on S25 Ultra?

[BryGuy]

Did Samsung remove all of the customize options for the always on display?? I can no longer find any way to change colors, add pictures, change the clock styles, etc. Also, app notifications are now showing up in the left hand corner instead of under the clock in the middle of the screen like before?? And before you ask - yes my software is updated to the latest firmware as of this post. 

[microspock]

So, I have a pretty bad opinion about the AOD in One UI 7. They turned it into an extension of the lock screen, starting from the lock screen. Now, you can even set the lock screen wallpaper on the AOD, and nothing moves on the AOD anymore like it used to, to prevent screen burn-in... The AOD in One UI 7 is basically just a lock screen feature now. They rebuilt it from scratch... And I suspect the Now Bar is the reason behind this redesign, or something like that. So now, they have to completely redo a new LockStar setup for this new AOD. Honestly, it's not very serious—this feels like an unfinished product. I don't understand why they choose S25 to kill a mature AOD and replace it with a new completely buggy one.

[Ellin]

Does anyone know how to get the aod brighter? And how to get the fonts when writing whiter? They look washed out?

[userXcYw933Y0Y]

Settings display brightness fonts,pull down panel has settings, accessibilites vision enhancements

[Ellin]

Vision enhancements messed everything up the other day, I remember there was something through his lock, just a slider to enhance the brightness on the aod, but I don't remember where it was

[userImcldNKWZq]

If you tapped the AOD screen a little sun would pop up that you could click to show a brightness slider, but it's gone now. I switched from a Note 20 Ultra to an S25 Ultra and I'm not impressed. I'm pretty bummed that I already sent in my old phone for trade. This thing has been a huge disappointment. IPhones are adding features and Samsung is taking away. By the time I need a new phone I'll probably get an iPhone because it'll have the features the Samsung took away.

[TrippSauce]

Go to the Wallpapers in the settings, tap on the lock screen to change the wallpaper then tap on the Clock. You will ne able to change the settings of the Always on Display from there

[Bevo2025]

This does nothing... 

[newS25Uuser]

Hey there, I came from S22 Ultra and I am having some issues with my S25 Ultra which I can't find any solutions yet, please let me know if you have the same issues and how you workaround these issue.

1) There is no option to turn off AOD adaptive brightness settings. I find it impractical especially when I am in a dark room or away from a light source. My AOD is set to always on and I have always liked this feature on my S22 Ultra, useful for finding my phone in the dark, checking date/time, notification icons, and battery percentage at a distance. The new adaptive brightness setting makes the AOD almost useless for me as the adaptive brightness makes the AOD unreadable especially in a dark room. Some settings I already tried: switching off/on extra dim, eye shield comfort, adaptive color tone, lock screen wallpaper. My AOD clock is bright neon pink with a black background but I can barely see it in darker places due to the adaptive brightness. Another option is to switch off adaptive brightness completely but I need the adaptive brightness for my daily use (e.g. under the sun/ poorly-lit environments). This is not an issue in my S22 Ultra as the adaptive brightness is always on and it does not affect the AOD at all.

2) The size of the notification icons and battery percentage indicator in lock screen/ AOD is too small to be useful. It will be good if there is a way to customize the font size of the status bar, and icon size in lock screen/ AOD when the screen is still locked. I am aware of the lock screen widget customization but the size is not customizable. In addition, I think the battery percentage in the status bar can be placed next to the battery icon, rather than in the battery icon itself. It will slightly help with the readability of the battery percentage.

3) In my opinion, more features should be included in the Now Bar for it to be useful. As I am not a fan of sports and I am not following any teams, the only feature the Now Bar has is to greet me on a daily basis which is pointless. Some suggestions could be to use the Now Bar to display the battery percentage, weather, priority notifications (which can be customized), reminders, calendars, a custom message, a custom photo, or even integrate Smart Home devices that I can control from the AOD without unlocking my device. Also, the Now Bar goes missing randomly on both the lock screen and AOD, which is annoying to me even when Now Bar and Now Brief are both set to on.

I am also aware of Good Lock's Lock Star but I can't find it in the Good Lock app/ galaxy store on the S25 Ultra. My device version is One UI version 7.0, Android version 15.

Thank you for reading my lengthy post and please provide me with some suggestions if you do have any. Overall, I love my S25 Ultra but I am hoping future software updates can solve these issues.

- Coming from Note 4 => S7 Edge => Note 8 => Note 10+ => S22 Ultra => S25 Ultra

[G-Funkster]

I like those suggestions/ ideas! Just a quick note, Lock Star did just get updated to One UI 7 only 3 days ago, so have you checked it in the past couple of days, or is Good Lock on its newest version?

[newS25Uuser]

Thank you for your reply! I have just seen the latest news regarding Lock Star and it seems that it's only released in Korea, or the alternative is by side loading the beta APK. Will wait for the official release and update here if it solve my issues.

Cheers~