While the three-button navigation mode is the default way to navigate on the Galaxy S24, some users prefer gesture navigation, and many of them were annoyed by the inability to hide the gesture navigation bar at the bottom of the screen.
Users who prefer a cleaner home screen were displeased with the change. The navigation bar doesn’t serve any real purpose and is more of a training bar or a hint bar, as Samsung’s official name for it implies. In the long run, a pill that’s always visible can also cause burn-in.
Samsung has listened to their pleas. As first spotted by Mishaal Rahman, the company’s Good Lock app, which lets you customize the user interface, can bring back the option to hide the gesture bar.
All you have to do is download the Navstar module and disable the ‘gesture hint’ toggle.
Samsung has heard your pleas: You can now hide the gesture bar in One UI 6.1 on the Galaxy S24!
Samsung is rolling out an update to NavStar, the Good Lock module that lets you customize navigation, that brings back the setting to hide the gesture hint. Here’s a before and after… pic.twitter.com/F736F3bceA
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) January 28, 2024
