Home Up's DIY Home to get landscape support with One UI 8

In February this year, Samsung released an update to Good Lock’s Home Up module. It brought a redesigned user interface and many new features. One of them was DIY Home, which lets you place items (icons and widgets) anywhere on the home screen, irrespective of the grid layout, add stickers to it, and do a lot more. 

However, the feature works only when the home screen is in the portrait orientation. Well, the company says that it is working on making Home Up’s DIY Home work with the home screen’s landscape orientation as well (yes, Samsung phones can display the home screen in landscape orientation too), with One UI 8.0.

Most people might not know that Samsung smartphones can display the home screen in landscape orientation. However, this feature doesn’t work out of the box. Instead, you have to activate it manually by going to Settings » Home Screen, and turning on Rotate to landscape mode. However, if you do so, Home Up’s DIY Home feature will stop working.

When people raised this issue on Samsung’s Community forum for Korea, a moderator replied, saying that the South Korean tech giant is considering making DIY Home work with the home screen’s landscape orientation as well, and that the company plans to offer it for the “next OS“. By ‘next OS,’ we think that they mean Samsung’s Android 16-based One UI 8.0.

Very few Samsung smartphone users enable the option for One UI to show the home screen in landscape orientation. So, the upcoming feature for Home Up’s DIY Home will be very niche. However, that’s the whole point of Good Lock and its modules: to provide niche features for niche people. Expect Samsung to update Home Up on One UI 8.0 soon.