A new One UI 9.5 LockStar leak gives us a first look at extra transition animations that play right after your Galaxy phone is unlocked. On November 10, 2026, leaker Ice Universe shared a screenshot on X from a LockStar build pulled out of One UI 9.5, showing a tiled mosaic effect assembling the home screen while calling the new animations rough and unpolished.

You can’t install this One UI 9.5 LockStar build from Good Lock yet. If you already use LockStar on One UI 8.5 or One UI 9, open Good Lock > LockStar on your phone to see the single Swirl opening transition Samsung currently ships for comparison.

What the One UI 9.5 LockStar screenshot shows

Ice Universe captured the phone mid-transition on a pure black backdrop as it opens to the home screen. Instead of the standard zoom-in fade, the entire layout breaks into dozens of tilted square tiles shaded in bright green and orange gradients.

Look closely at those scattered squares and you can make out pieces of a November calendar widget with the 10th highlighted alongside sliced app icons for the Google Play Store, Samsung Internet, Camera, YouTube and X. The tiles sit at slight angles before snapping together into the regular icon grid.

Ice Universe didn’t hold back on how the current test build looks in motion, saying the new effects look like student work and lack refinement. Because the post only includes one still frame and doesn’t name the extracted APK version or share a video clip, we can’t judge the frame rate or see the other effect styles mentioned in the post yet.

Comparing LockStar 8.5.00.17 with the One UI 9.5 build

To check what changed, I compared the leak against the live LockStar listing on the Galaxy Store from Good Lock Labs. That public listing currently sits at version 8.5.00.17, last updated on June 29, 2026.

LockStar build Source Screen-open transition details
Public v8.5.00.17 Galaxy Store (One UI 8.5+) Added the Swirl transition type and improved status bar visibility on the animation edit screen
Extracted One UI 9.5 build Ice Universe (Nov 10, 2026) Adds multiple post-open animation effects, including a tilted green-and-orange mosaic tile transition

That changelog history explains what Good Lock Labs is building on here. Samsung introduced custom opening animations in LockStar with One UI 8.5 starting with Swirl, and the One UI 9.5 branch is expanding that menu with more dramatic transition presets.

LockStar has also been the go-to workaround for recent lock screen quirks on Android 17, including the 12-hour clock bug we investigated in our One UI 9 AOD clock leading-zero report.

When could One UI 9.5 LockStar reach Good Lock?

This Good Lock leak arrives right after a wave of extracted system apps surfaced over the past 48 hours. Yesterday we compared the redesigned bottom bars and tools in our One UI 9.5 app leaks roundup covering Notes, Keyboard, Calendar, Clock, Samsung Health and Bixby, though One UI 9.5 LockStar wasn’t part of that package list.

Because these builds come from early internal One UI 9.5 firmware rather than a finished release, Good Lock Labs still has plenty of time to tune or drop rough animation presets before stable One UI 9.5 debuts alongside the Galaxy S27 series in early 2027. Samsung hasn’t opened public beta testing yet, and you can follow our Galaxy S26 Ultra One UI 9.5 beta build coverage plus our One UI 9.5 update hub for eligible models and timing.

Do you customize your Galaxy lock screen with LockStar, or stick to Samsung’s stock transition? Let me know which Galaxy model you use in the comments.

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