How-to guide · Core capabilities Add the Quick Settings tile

Actionquick settings tile
Audience Motor Vision
Time About 30 seconds, once
Permissions None — the tile is registered with Android automatically
What this is: A one-tap shortcut that lives in your phone’s pull-down Quick Settings tray. Once added, tapping the Aside tile from any screen — including the lock screen if your phone allows it — launches Aside straight into mic-on mode. Useful when you want voice access without finding the icon, opening the app, and tapping the orb.
Try it now

Pull down from the top of your screen with two fingers to open the full Quick Settings tray, then tap the edit button (it looks like a pencil or three dots, depending on your phone). Find the Aside tile in the lower “available tiles” tray, then drag it up into the active tray.

From now on, one tap on that tile from any screen launches Aside listening — no orb tap needed.

Step by step

  1. Open the full Quick Settings tray

    From any screen, swipe down from the very top of the display with two fingers — or swipe down once with one finger and then once more — to expand the full Quick Settings tray. You’ll see a grid of round tiles (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, flashlight, and so on).

    The Samsung One UI Quick Settings tray, fully expanded over a dimmed background. The top status row shows ‘Unregistered SIM’ on the left and Bluetooth / NFC / signal / Wi-Fi / battery icons on the right, with a pencil edit icon, a power button, and a settings cog at the very top-right of the tray. The tray is divided into rounded panels: a top panel with the Wi-Fi (Donofrio Guest) and Bluetooth tiles, a middle panel with a 2x4 grid of additional tiles (Auto rotate, Flight mode, Flashlight, Mobile data, Mobile Hotspot, Power saving, Location, Link to Windows), then a brightness slider and a media-volume slider, and finally cards for ‘Play last song / Media output’, ‘Nearby devices / SmartThings’, and ‘Smart View / Modes’. The pencil edit affordance at the top-right is the next interaction target.
    The full Quick Settings tray. The pencil edit affordance lives at the top-right of the tray.

  2. Tap the edit button

    Tap the small pencil icon at the top-right of the tray. (Samsung One UI 6 also exposes ‘Panel settings’ at the top-left, but the pencil is the one that puts you into reorder + edit mode.) The view changes into edit mode: ‘Panel settings’ appears top-left, ‘Done’ top-right, and the tile grid is now interactive with the caption ‘Touch and hold to change order.’ above it. To find Aside specifically, scroll the available-tiles list — on Samsung One UI 6 the available drawer is reached by scrolling the active tray vertically. If Aside is not yet visible, force-quit and re-launch Aside once (the tile registers with Android on first launch); if it still doesn’t appear, restart the phone — Samsung’s SystemUI caches the tile list aggressively.

    The Samsung One UI Quick Settings tray in edit mode. The header now shows ‘Panel settings’ at the top-left and a ‘Done’ pill button at the top-right, with caption ‘Touch and hold to change order.’ The first row of the tray shows large Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tiles. Below that, a dark rounded panel highlights the second row of tiles (Auto rotate, Flight mode, Flashlight, Mobile data, Mobile Hotspot, Power saving, Location, Link to Windows) with a small ‘Edit’ chip floating in the center. Below the active tray, additional rows show brightness, media controls, ‘Play music / Media output’, ‘Nearby devices / SmartThings’, and ‘Smart View / Modes’. (Note: on this device Aside’s tile may not yet be in the available list until SystemUI’s cache is refreshed by a phone restart, per the Samsung One UI 6 quirk.)
    Edit mode. Scroll to find available tiles; if Aside isn’t there yet, restart the phone to refresh Samsung’s tile cache.

  3. Drag the Aside tile into the active tray

    Touch and hold the Aside tile in the available tray, then drag it up into the active tiles area. Drop it wherever you want it — first slot for fastest access, or after the tiles you already use most. When you let go, the tile snaps into place and the rest of the active tray rearranges around it. If your phone has a Done or back arrow in the top-left of edit mode, tap that to leave edit mode. Otherwise just swipe up to dismiss the tray.

    No screenshot of this step: Drag-and-drop on the Quick Settings tray is a hand gesture — we couldn’t reliably script the drag from our test rig, so the captured-screenshot pipeline skips this frame. The description above is the canonical reference for what to do.

  4. Tap the tile from anywhere

    From now on, pull down the Quick Settings tray from any screen and tap the Aside tile once. Aside opens straight into listening — the orb is already in its listening state, the status pill reads LISTENING, and the next thing you say becomes the turn. No icon hunt, no orb tap, no waiting.

If you don’t see the Aside tile in the available tray: Force-quit and re-launch Aside once — the tile is registered with Android the first time the app starts after install. On rare occasions Android caches the old tile list; rebooting the phone refreshes it.
Note: Whether the tile works from the lock screen depends on your phone’s manufacturer settings. On stock Android and Pixel devices it works directly. On Samsung One UI you may need to allow Quick Settings access from the lock screen under Settings → Lock screen → Quick panel.