How to Add a Countdown Widget on Samsung

To add a countdown widget on Samsung, touch and hold an empty area of your home screen, tap Widgets, find Soon, select its countdown widget, and tap Add. Save an event in Soon first so the widget has a date to display.

Save your countdown before adding the widget

Open Soon: Day Countdown Widget and use the plus button on the Moments tab to create an event. Enter a short, recognizable name, choose the date, and tap Start countdown. Add a time only if you want to count down to a particular moment rather than a whole day. For your first setup, keep the default theme and confirm that the saved event appears in Moments. You can then return to the Samsung home screen; the event form and the phone’s widget menu are separate steps.

Find Soon in Samsung’s Widgets menu

Start from the home screen where you want the countdown to appear. Hold a blank area, tap Widgets, and look beyond the recommended items for Soon. Select its widget, then tap Add. The English widget label is Soon countdown. Samsung notes that screens and settings can vary by device and software version, so the picker may look different from another Galaxy phone’s. The Widgets tab inside Soon is a preview area; opening it does not place anything on your Samsung home screen. Use the phone’s picker to complete that step.

Give the countdown enough room

Hold the placed widget and drag its resize handles to adjust it. Soon supports resizing horizontally and vertically, but uses one Android layout rather than separate small, medium, and large designs. Its event title has a two-line limit, so put the identifying words first: Flight home is more useful here than a long sentence. Enlarging the widget changes its available space; it does not add another event or more countdown fields. If the page is crowded, Samsung’s home screen editor also lets you add another page using the plus sign.

Read the number on the home screen

Soon’s Android widget shows an event title, an emoji by default, and one remaining-time value. Future dates use calendar days in the phone’s local time zone. An event without a time stays on Today throughout its date; a timed event on the current day uses hours. The table explains these displays. You will not get the app’s four-part days, hours, minutes, and seconds counter on the home screen. The widget calculates from saved event data without requiring the app to stay open, but it is a periodic display, not a second-by-second timer or an exact-time alarm.

Use the pin to choose the shared event

Soon gives an active pinned event priority; otherwise, the widget shows the nearest upcoming event. Open an event in Soon and tap the pin icon near the top to change that priority. Only one event can be pinned at a time. There is a current limitation: returning from the detail screen after changing the pin does not immediately refresh the main view or send the new selection to the widget. After returning, switch to another Soon tab to trigger that refresh. This is an app refresh issue, not a Samsung event-selection setting.

Know what happens when you add another copy

Every Soon widget on the same phone uses the same event selection and style. Adding another copy on a different home screen page does not let you assign it a different countdown. For example, if an active pinned event is later than another saved event, both copies still favor the pinned one. When the selected event ends, the widget can move to another upcoming event from its saved list; repeating events can advance to their next occurrence. If your goal is to see two different dates side by side, Soon’s current Android widget does not provide that setup.

Treat the gallery as a preview

Soon’s Widgets tab illustrates countdown cards in several sizes and can show different events together. That arrangement is not a set of independently configurable Samsung widgets. The actual Android widget uses the shared selection described above. Its background uses colors rather than a photo, even when an event has a personal photo cover inside Soon. A gallery card can also show information, such as a date, that is absent from the native widget. Check the placed home screen widget before choosing a layout based on the preview.

Customize the supported appearance

Premium widget controls are under Widgets, then Explore styles inside Soon. They let you follow the event’s theme or choose a color theme, select a color, light, or dark look, show or hide the emoji, and choose a normal or larger number. Tap Save to apply the style. The current version also has a known issue for free users: the subscription screen opened through Explore styles does not dismiss when Continue free is tapped. Keep the default widget for initial setup; customizing its appearance is optional.

Move it, remove it, or protect its position

To reposition the countdown, hold it and drag it to another spot or home screen page. To take it off the home screen, hold it and choose Remove. Once the layout suits you, Samsung offers a way to prevent accidental repositioning: hold an empty area, open Settings, and enable Lock Home screen layout. Turn that setting off when you want to rearrange items again. This layout lock controls where home screen items sit; it does not choose which event Soon displays.