Move through the One UI settings list at your own pace
Samsung ships more options than almost anyone else, and the skill is not finding a switch but knowing which of sixteen headings it hides behind. This simulator puts that list on a phone frame in a browser tab, so you can open every heading, follow it five levels down and see where the extras actually live.
At a glance
Loading One UI gives you a phone with the Settings app in front of you. The ordering, the grouping and the nesting are the system's own, not a simplified summary of it. The counts below come from the tree itself, so they move only when the tree does.
- 16top-level entries
- 354rows in total
- 5levels deep
- 2versions
| Device family | Phones |
|---|---|
| Frame shown | Phone |
| Versions | 7, 6.1 |
| Deepest path | 5 levels below the main list |
| Interface languages | 12, switchable while you browse |
| Account needed | No — it runs entirely in your browser |
How One UI organises Settings
Sixteen entries is a short list for a phone carrying roughly 354 rows, which tells you the grouping does a lot of work. Connections swallows Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SIM manager, Mobile networks, Airplane mode, Data usage and tethering, so the top level stays calm while the second level gets crowded. Connected devices is kept separate for the things you own rather than the networks you join. Then Modes and Routines, Sounds and vibration, Notifications and Display cover daily use, and Wallpaper and style plus Lock screen and AOD split appearance in two. Battery and device care merges four maintenance ideas that other systems keep apart.
The character of the list is really in its back half. Advanced features is a genuine miscellany, Digital Wellbeing handles screen time, General management holds language and reset, and Software update and About phone finish in the usual order. That leaves a predictable trap: when a setting is not where you expect, the answer is almost always Advanced features or General management, and knowing which of the two saves a minute every time. Compared with a plain Android build, the same underlying options are here but redistributed, so muscle memory from another handset works only about half the time.
Three settings worth finding
Settings > Modes and Routines > DrivingA mode changes several settings at once when a condition is met, and Driving is the easiest one to reason about. Finding it shows how the phone bundles do-not-disturb, audio and app behaviour into a single state instead of asking you to flip each switch.
Settings > Display > Motion smoothnessThis is where the screen refresh rate is chosen, and it is the setting most often blamed for battery drain on a new Galaxy. It sits between Screen mode and Font size and style, which is not where most people think to look.
Settings > Connected devices > Quick ShareQuick Share handles direct file transfer to nearby devices, and it appears twice on this screen, once as the feature and once as its settings. Knowing the distinction avoids the common mistake of turning off visibility when you meant to change who can send.
Versions of One UI you can open
There are 2 builds of One UI to choose from, which is enough to watch the menu drift over time rather than guess at it.
How this menu got here
Samsung's phone settings began as a dense scrolling list and were reorganised into a smaller set of broad headings with large touch targets in the lower half of the screen, on the argument that a big phone is used one-handed. Later releases pulled scattered automation controls together and gave modes and routines a single home, and moved always-on display beside the lock screen. The two versions offered here, 7 and 6.1, sit either side of that tidying, so switching between them shows what moved rather than what was invented.
Who this is useful for
Someone moving from an iPhone to a Galaxy gets the most immediate value, because the hard part of that switch is vocabulary rather than gestures. Retail staff who demonstrate handsets, carrier support agents reading a path down the phone, and parents setting up a first phone for a child all benefit from rehearsing without holding the device. So does anyone on 6.1 deciding whether the newer release is worth installing.
What is real and what is sample data
The structure is the real thing: menu names, their order, how they are grouped and what sits inside each one. That is why this article can quote a path such as Settings > Modes and Routines > Driving and expect it to match your phone.
The state cannot be. A device name, an address, a build number, a network name, a storage figure, whether a particular switch is on or off — those belong to a physical phone, not to a menu tree. Those values appear here as clearly-marked samples. They are there so the row has the right shape, and they should never be read as a fact about a real phone.
Try it yourself
Start at the top of One UI and open every row once. It takes a few minutes and it is the fastest way to stop guessing which section a given option lives under. When the question is really One UI versus something else, open them side by side rather than reading two separate menus from memory. And if you know the setting but not the section, search for it by name across all 43 systems at once.
Open One UI in the simulatorFree, no account, works offline — 354 settings rows across 2 versions.Key points
- One UI shows 16 top-level entries and 354 rows in total, nested up to 5 levels.
- Menu names and their order come from the settings tree itself, so the paths quoted here match the real phone.
- Anything that belongs to a specific device — names, addresses, build numbers, switch positions — is a marked sample.
Questions about One UI settings
Is this Samsung's own settings app?
No. It is an independent browser simulator with no connection to Samsung and no endorsement from them. It reproduces the layout and wording of the settings list so you can practise navigating it, and everything runs on your own device without an account, an install or any effect on real hardware.
Why does my phone show more entries than this?
Carriers and regions add their own items, and some entries only appear when matching hardware or an account is present. The sixteen headings shown here are the common core. If something on your handset is missing from the simulator, that is usually why, and the surrounding structure will still match.
Are the device names and networks in the lists real?
No, they are sample values and marked as such. Menu names and their order can be reproduced faithfully, but the contents of a phone, its paired earbuds, its saved networks and its storage figures, belong to that individual phone. Never read a number shown here as a fact about any real device.