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How to combine the Samsung notification and quick panels
In short
Swipe down from the top right of the screen, tap the pencil, then Panel settings, and choose Together if your phone lets you. Notifications and quick settings then open in one panel again, as they did before One UI 7. On our Galaxy S26, Together was greyed out and could not be chosen.
Since One UI 7, newer Galaxy phones have two panels: swiping down from the top right opens the quick settings, swiping down from the top left opens the notifications. If you prefer the old single panel, one setting brings it back.
5 of 5 steps show a real screenshot from our Galaxy S26.
Steps
- 1
Open the quick panel
Swipe down from the top right corner of the screen. With the Separate layout, that corner opens the quick settings buttons.
- 2
Tap the pencil
The pencil is next to the power and settings buttons, under the status bar.
- 3
Tap Panel settings
It is at the top left of the edit view.
- 4
Choose Together, if offered
Separate is the One UI 7 to 9 default. Together puts notifications and quick settings in one panel, whichever part of the top edge you swipe from. Samsung calls this option Notification and quick settings view. On our Galaxy S26, as on our Galaxy A57 before it, Together was greyed out on this page, so we could not choose it there. The page gives no reason, and we have not found one; if it is greyed out on your phone too, the panels cannot be combined from this page.
- 5
Leave the quick panel on the right, or move it
With Separate, the Quick panel on left side switch below swaps which top corner opens the quick settings. It was off on our phone.
If you do not see this option
- There is no Notification and quick settings view screen Samsung says that on some Galaxy phones this screen may not appear, and you go straight to the next step, where you tap Together. Source: Customize the Quick settings panel on your Samsung Galaxy
- Your phone is on One UI 6.1.1 or older Samsung says notifications and quick settings already open with the same swipe there: swipe down once for notifications, and again for all of quick settings. There is nothing to combine. Source: Customize the Quick settings panel on your Samsung Galaxy
If this does not work
- Your notifications and quick settings still open separately Samsung says to swipe down from the top left for notifications and from the top right for the quick panel on One UI 7 and later.
- A button in the panel is grey Samsung says options go grey when the feature behind them is switched off, for example Wi-Fi settings while Wi-Fi is off.
Good to know
To add, remove or move the buttons themselves: how to edit the quick panel buttons on a Samsung Galaxy.
On One UI 6.1.1 and earlier, notifications and quick settings open with the same swipe, and Quick panel layout is under the three dots in the quick panel instead.
The layout choice changes how the panels are accessed. Your notifications, the quick settings buttons and their order stay as they were. To go back, return to Panel settings and choose Separate. On newer Galaxy phones, Samsung lets you move the cards inside the quick panel: tap the pencil, then touch and hold a card and drag it to a new position, and tap Done to apply.
About this guide
- Device
- Android
- Shown on
- Samsung Galaxy S26 (SM-S942N, Korean model), One UI 9.0, Android 17 (build CP2A.260605.016.S942NKSU5BZJB)
- Starts in
- Quick Settings
- Real screenshots
- 5 of 5 steps
- What we did
- Observed: looked at each screen, changed nothing
- Checked
- November 2026
- Sources
- 1 official, linked below
The screenshots are from a Samsung Galaxy S26 with One UI 9.0 and Android 17, in Dark mode. Samsung says which screens and settings you see can depend on your network, software version and phone model. We only looked at these screens on our phones and changed nothing. Ours stayed on Separate.
Sources
Links checked November 2026. Menus and features can change with updates.Did this guide work for you?
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