Love it or hate it, the launcher on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus features unread notification badges on app icons. In case you’re unfamiliar, we’re referring to the little numbered bubbles next to app icons that designate how many unread notifications that app currently has. If you’re not a fan of these badges (which many people aren’t), luckily there are a couple different ways to remove them from your app icons.
Below you’ll find two ways to remove these badges from your icons. The first is a temporary fix, meant only to clear the badge from the icon until another notification shows up. The second method is permanent and will require you to download a third-party app to turn this feature off.
Without any further delay, here’s how to disable notification badges on your Galaxy S8:
How to clear notification badges from app icons on the Galaxy S8 (temporary)
To temporarily clear a notification badge from an app icon, find the icon (either on your phone’s home screen or in the app drawer), then perform these simple steps:
- Long-press (press and hold) the app icon.
- Select Clear badge from the menu.
That’s it! The notification badge will be removed from the app icon until you receive another notification for that particular app.
Of course, that’s only the temporary fix. If you no longer want to see any notification badges on your app icons, you’ll need to download a separate app for that. Unfortunately Samsung doesn’t provide an easy way to do this in the settings menu.
How to disable notification badges on the Galaxy S8 (permanent)
First, download Package Disabler Pro from the Google Play Store link below. It costs $1.49, but we’d say the low price is worth it.
Not so fast! After Package Disabler Pro is installed on your Galaxy S8, you’ll need to make sure to make sure all icon badges are cleared from all your apps using the instructions attached above. If any are left over, the notification badges will be stuck until you redo this process. So to save yourself some time and effort, clear them out now so you don’t have to start over.
Once you’ve cleared all icon badges from your apps, follow these steps:
- Open Package Disabler Pro.
- Create and enter a password in the text field, then tap Enable Admin.
- Tap Activate on the next screen.
- Scroll down until you find the BadgeProvider entry, then check the box next to it.
- Warning: Do not check any additional boxes on this screen. Checking the wrong box could disable key functions on your Galaxy S8.
And that’s all! As long as you have this application installed on your device, notification badges won’t show up. If you need to bring them back for some reason, either uninstall the app or uncheck the box next to the BadgeProvider entry.
Have any questions? Feel free to leave them in the comment section below and we’ll do our best to help you out!
Everyone’s been talking about Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and S8+, but not all of the chatter is positive. The fingerprint scanner is in an awkward location, the North American variant is simply not as smooth and fluid as the international model, and Samsung Experience is nothing more than TouchWiz with a bow on it. But perhaps worst of all, user reports are starting to roll in that indicate the Galaxy S8 may have a serious problem with premature screen burn-in.
The Galaxy S8’s new on-screen navigation bar, which was supposed to be resistant to burn-in thanks to an algorithm put into place by Samsung, has turned out not to be. It started off with a few users who noticed burn-in after only a week but is slowly snowballing and has branched out into a couple hundred reports. However, since the Galaxy S8 and S8+ both have AMOLED screens, the burn-in can be reversed, and we here at Gadget Hacks have also figured out a way to prevent it from reoccurring. Let’s take a look at how below.
Step 1: Install AMOLED Burn-in Fixer
To start off, you’ll need to undo the burn-in on your phone. It’s a fairly simple process which only requires the installation of an app that’ll invert your screen, which forces the pixels to unstick from their current burned-in color(s). The app we’ll be using is called AMOLED Burn-in Fixer, and will work on all devices with an AMOLED screen.
- Install AMOLED Burn-in Fixer for free from the Google Play Store
Once you’ve got the app installed, open it up and let it run until your pixels look as though they’re back to normal. Depending on the severity of the screen burn-in, this could take several hours, so keep a charger handy. We also have a complete guide on installing and using the app below, so check that out if you’d prefer step-by-step instructions.
Step 2: Hide Navigation & Status Bar
After you’ve fixed the burnt-in pixels, you’ll want to make sure the problem doesn’t happen again. The easiest way to do this would be to enable always-on Immersive Mode, which will autohide your navigation and status bars to keep them from getting etched into the screen, while still giving you access to these functions by simply swiping in from the edge of your screen.
The process is fairly simple, but it does require a computer with ADB installed. We recommend hiding both the navigation and status bars since those two areas have proven to be problematic. So to ensure that the screen burn-in doesn’t come back, check out the complete guide at the link below for the ADB commands to hide those bars.
Step 3: Turn Off Always On Display
This last step will reinforce the anti-burn-in steps taken in Step 2. While Samsung did claim the home button the S8 and S8+ shift a little bit to prevent burn-in, what about Always On Display? Does the home button shift there too, or does it just stay static? Either way, we’re going to turn off AOD since it does constantly show the home button (which appears to stay in the same spot).
So head to Settings and tap on “Lock screen and security.” Scroll down a little bit to “Always On Display,” and tap on the toggle right there or open up the menu and hit the toggle on top. Either way, AOD will have successfully turned off.
Now that you’ve hidden or turned off everything that could possibly be causing the navigation and status bar burn-in, let’s find out whether or not it worked. Given that the initial burn-in reports began coming in about a week after the S8 was officially released, that should be a decent timeframe for trying out your phone with the bars hidden and AOD turned off.
If you have a theory on why the S8 or S8+ burned in so quickly, be sure to share it with us in the comment section below. Also, let us know if you were able to restore your phone to its former glory by following this tutorial.
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10-26-2019 04:07 PM (Last edited 10-26-2019 04:07 PM ) in
Theres a small white bar at the bottom of my screen it shows in discord and most of my fullscreen games how do I remove it?
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• Go into settings
• Scroll down until you come across “NAVIGATION BAR” settings.
I recommend you use the full screen gestures. It really brings out the galaxy’s beautiful screen to life. For alittle butter go ahead and turn off “GESTURES HINT” on the bottom of “NAVIGATION BAR” settings. Hope this helps. #unboxyourphone
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• Go into settings
• Scroll down until you come across “NAVIGATION BAR” settings.
I recommend you use the full screen gestures. It really brings out the galaxy’s beautiful screen to life. For alittle butter go ahead and turn off “GESTURES HINT” on the bottom of “NAVIGATION BAR” settings. Hope this helps. #unboxyourphone
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12-26-2019 11:31 PM (Last edited 12-26-2019 11:32 PM ) in
This is it. Your answer was the only one which understood and addressed my issue. Dunno what the others are seeing. Thanks
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• Go into settings
• Tap on “DISPLAY”
• Scroll down until you come across “NAVIGATION BAR” settings.
I recommend you use the full screen gestures. It really brings out the galaxy’s beautiful screen to life. For alittle butter go ahead and turn off “GESTURES HINT” on the bottom of “NAVIGATION BAR” settings. Hope this helps. #unboxyourphone
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04-20-2020 02:23 AM (Last edited 04-20-2020 06:40 AM by SamsungAdam ) in
I just got the phone and the same thing happens. This is samsung engineering problem i haven’t drop my phone or anything but the white bar at the bottom of the screen is just popped up. You know how sad it is when you even can’t afford for screen replacement there is not solution unless you changed the screen
On the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy device, it shows you notification badges on the icon of apps. Whether you own a shiny new Galaxy S9, or the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, or any other Galaxy smartphone, this feature is available on them all. But what if your device stops showing you notification badge icon?
Well, if your Galaxy smartphone is not showing you badge icon (or a dot, in case of Oreo and upwards), then this is a problem because it should. Thankfully, we have got you covered up.
- How to fix problems with notification badge icon on the home screen of a Galaxy smartphone
- How to keep the unread badge count even after you swipe to remove the notifications
- Any other Alternative solution?
How to fix problems with notification badge icon on the home screen of a Galaxy smartphone
While you may have to wait for a software update for issues like this, there is a simple fix available for this problem that should solve it right away.
Try this solution:
- Open settings app > Apps > Tap on 3-dot menu in the top right corner > Special Access
- Now tap on Notification access
- Look for the app called Samsung Experience Home. (It’s possible only part of the name is visible as ‘Samsung Experience..’ or the like.)
- Tap the toggle button to turn the setting ON for this app. This would allow the Samsung Experience app access to notifications, which is what the badges are about. The app is Samsung’s custom software that handles the features like Notification badge, and many other countless — but not needless — features.
BTW, was it already turned on? If it was already On, then this might not fix the issue for you.
How to keep the unread badge count even after you swipe to remove the notifications
Well, we have covered this entire topic separately here. You can’t tweak the settings for this actually because Samsung has removed this feature on Oreo. Once you swipe away the notifications of the app form the panel, its unread badge counter will be reset too. So, to get this feature back on Oreo and later updates, you have to use a bunch of apps from the Play Store, which gets you this feature, and a lot more. Check the link below for downloads and guide.
The Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, and Galaxy Note 8 are the first flagship smartphones from Samsung that ditch their traditional capacitive buttons in favor of software navigation keys. Besides allowing us to customize the layout of the keys, we can also change the navigation bar color as well. Among a selection of standard colors that we had to choose from, Samsung had also included a color wheel option so they could pick whatever color they wanted. However, the company removed this color wheel option in June’s OTA update, but thanks to an ADB command we can still manually change the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, or Galaxy Note 8 navigation bar color.
For example, if you want to set a persistently black navigation bar color, now you can! The guide below walks you through how to change the color via an ADB command through a PC.
Tutorial – Change Galaxy S8, S8+, or Note 8 Navigation Bar Color
- Follow this tutorial in order to set up ADB on your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC.
- Open up a Command Prompt or Terminal window and execute the following command in the command prompt or terminal window: adb shell
- Now we’re in the ADB shell environment of our Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, or Galaxy Note 8. We’ll next need to get the color code for the navigation bar color that we want to set.
- You can go to this website here, and use the color picker shown at the bottom of the page.
- After you pick a color, copy the entire Android Value number shown in the box (include the – minus symbol if it’s there)
- Turn your attention back to the command prompt or terminal window and execute the following two commands:
Explanation
Since Samsung hasn’t come out and given us a reason why they removed the color wheel from the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+/Note 8 navigation bar color options, we aren’t quite sure exactly why the company did this. It’s possible that Samsung simply doesn’t want people using strange colors as it can clash with the rest of the OS. Then again, there may have been some issue with how Samsung implemented this feature that is causing some issue with other parts of the platform.
Either way, the feature is still there under the hood of Samsung’s OEM skin, and thankfully we’re able to access it with some simple ADB commands. XDA Member haksancan first pointed this out in our Galaxy S8 forum and did a lot of work explaining where this feature is hidden and even how to calculate a specific color. Fortunately, it looks like this feature still works on the newly released Galaxy Note 8 as well.
The value format we’re using here is an RGB hex color code converted to signed decimal. There are ways to manually calculate the color value, but we’ll just be using the color wheel linked in Step 15 of the guide above.
It’s these values that would have been changed when manually selecting a color from the Settings menu, but instead we’re just injecting them into the software with an ADB shell command. If you ever want to revert back to a traditional color, you can simply go into Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar and then choose one of the standard colors that Samsung has made available. Remember, we’re just manually injecting a color code with these commands, so you can easily revert this change by selecting a different color here.
There are a few caveats with this method though, and they applied to Samsung’s solution as well. For example, some applications manually change the color of the navigation bar on its own. This cannot be overwritten with this method so those applications will have control of the Galaxy S8, S8+, or Note 8 navigation bar color themselves. A fully transparent navigation bar is not possible except for a few applications (such as the gallery or the overview page).
This is because applications do not generally draw under the navigation bar itself. So setting it to be transparent will just show a blank space since the application isn’t drawing itself under it. And lastly, setting it as fully transparent true black shows up as opaque white in most applications. The workaround here is to use colors which are almost black colors instead of true black.
If you’re seeing some of these problems with Chrome, you might have unwanted software or malware installed on your computer:
- Pop-up ads and new tabs that won’t go away
- Your Chrome homepage or search engine keeps changing without your permission
- Unwanted Chrome extensions or toolbars keep coming back
- Your browsing is hijacked, and redirects to unfamiliar pages or ads
- Alerts about a virus or an infected device
In the future, avoid unwanted software by only downloading files or visiting sites that you know are secure.
Step 1: Remove problem apps
- On an Android phone or tablet, press and hold your device’s power button.
- On your screen, touch and hold Power off . Your device starts in safe mode. You’ll see “Safe mode” at the bottom of your screen
- One by one, remove recently downloaded apps. Learn how to delete apps.
- Tip: To remember the apps that you remove so that you can add them back, make a list.
- After each removal, restart your device normally. See whether removing that app solved the problem.
- After you remove the app that caused the problem, you can add back the other apps that you removed. Learn how to reinstall apps.
Step 2: Protect your device from problem apps
- Make sure Play Protect is on:
- Open your Android device’s Google Play Store app .
- Tap Menu Play Protect.
- Turn on Scan device for security threats.
Step 3: Stop notifications from a certain website
If you’re seeing annoying notifications from a website, turn off the permission:
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
- Go to a webpage.
- To the right of the address bar, tap More Info .
- Tap Site settings.
- Under “Permissions,” tap Notifications.
- If you don’t see “Permissions” or “Notifications,” the site doesn’t have notifications turned on.
- Turn the setting off.
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Learn what to look for when you have malware on your computer and how to stay safe online.
- Watch out for things that look too good to be true. Winning a contest or getting expensive copyrighted content for free is sometimes a trick to get you to download malware.
- If you haven’t recently run a virus scanner, be wary of warnings about viruses or infected devices. The site might be trying to scare you into downloading unwanted software.
- Only download files or visit sites that you know are secure. Learn more about healthy browsing.
- Use Safe Browsing in Chrome and set your protection level to Enhanced protection.
If a popup about updating or downloading a program looks suspicious, don’t click on it. Instead, go to the program’s official website to download it.
To identify unwanted software that’s been installed and remove it, run a Safety Check:
You’ve just bought a new Samsung phone and can’t wait to try it out.
But to your disappointment, the screen just won’t stop flickering.
Initially, you think it’s an isolated issue that’ll go away after a while, but it persists longer than you thought.
Is it time to call the manufacturer and complain?
Since the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4, users have been complaining about this screen flickering issue. The problem was expected to be resolved before the manufacturer released the next model, but it has persisted to newer models such as the Galaxy J7 and the Galaxy S8.
With Samsung seemingly ignoring the issue, how do you deal with a flickering screen? Read on to find out.
What’s a Flickering Screen?
A glitched screen manifests in different ways. To know if you’re facing a screen flickering problem, look out for the following signs:
- A black and white line that randomly appears on your phone’s display.
- Flickering pixels that fill the display when you touch the screen.
- Part of your display turns black or white.
- The screen blinks repeatedly when using the phone.
If your phone doesn’t show any of these flickering issues, then there could be another underlying problem.
What Causes Screen Flickering?
Monitor flickering is widely believed to be caused by faulty hardware.
However, the problem can also be brought about by a software issue such as installing an app that requires a higher screen resolution to run.
How Do You Fix a Flickering Screen?
Here are a few tips and tricks you can try to get rid of screen flickers:
1. Check for App Updates
Before you start thinking about the kind of Samsung phone repair services you’ll need, ensure that all your apps are up-to-date.
To check for updates, go to Google Play Store and click on “My Apps”. If there are any new updates you need to install, they should appear here.
Apart from app updates, you also need to make sure that your android system is updated. To check for software updates, go to “Settings” and click on “About Phone”. If your software is outdated, it’ll be indicated here.
Note that this is the simplest and most basic hack you can try. If it doesn’t work, proceed to the next trick.
2. Disable Third-Party Apps
If a third party app is causing the screen flickering issue, disabling it can help you resolve the problem.
To disable third-party apps, you need to boot your phone in Safe Mode. For most Samsung models, the procedure is more or less the same. Here’s how to go about it:
- Turn off your phone.
- Press the Power button and hold it until you see the Samsung logo.
- Release the power button and immediately press the Volume Down button. Hold it down until your phone boots again.
The words “Safe Mode” should display on the bottom left side of your screen. If your screen isn’t flickering anymore, chances are that one of the third-party applications in your phone is causing the issue.
In this case, try remembering the apps you recently installed and identify the one whose installation coincides with the beginning of screen flickering.
With your culprit app identified, it’s time to reset it. To do this, go to “Settings” and click on “Apps”. This will display all your installed apps. Tap on the problematic app, go to storage and clear its data and cache.
If your screen is still flickering after resetting the problematic app, uninstall it to resolve the problem.
3. Turn Off Hardware Overlays
If the flickering problem occurs when your device’s display is set in low brightness, turning off hardware overlays might resolve the issue.
To do this, go to “Settings”, tap on “System”, followed by “About Device”. Next, press “Build Number” until your screen displays the message, “You are a Developer Now”.
Go back to “Settings”, tap “System”, and click on “Developer Options”. Scroll all the way down to “Rendering Section/Drawing Section” and click on “Turn off Hardware Overlays”.
4. Wipe the Cache Partition
Wiping the cache partition in “Recovery Mode” is another trick you can use to fix Samsung screen glitches. Doing this clears the part of your phone’s internal memory that stores cache.
To wipe the cache partition:
- Switch off your phone.
- Press and hold the Home, Volume Up, and Power buttons simultaneously until the Android logo appears. If you’re using a Galaxy S8 — which lacks a Home button — use the Bixby button instead.
- At this point, the “Recovery Mode” menu should appear. Use the Volume Up button to scroll down to the Wipe Cache Partition option and confirm the process using the Power button. Wait for the process to complete.
- Select the “Reboot System Now” option by navigating through the menu with the Volume Up button and selecting using the Power button. This will reboot your phone as you normally do.
After the reboot, the screen glitch should be resolved. If not, move on to the next and last course of action.
5. Hard Reset Your Device
Hard resetting your phone will erase everything on your phone, including settings and saved data. As such, it should be your last-ditch effort to fix a flickering screen.
Before you do it, make sure that you back up all your data on your Samsung account.
Here’s how to hard reset your phone:
- Boot your phone in “Recovery Mode”.
- From the menu that appears, choose the “Factory Reset/Wipe Data” option and confirm your action by pressing the Power button.
Once the hard resetting process is complete, your phone will reboot automatically.
What if the Screen Flickering Problem Persists?
If none of these hacks fixes your flickering screen issue, the problem is probably hardware-related. In such a case, DIY fixes aren’t recommended. You’ll need to contact a reliable phone repair center to get it fixed.
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Sometimes when we use internet for a long time and play heavy graphics games on our Samsung Phone. This makes trouble for the Hardware of our Samsung Galaxy Phones. I also faced the same problem after heavy usage of Internet.
“Green Screen Display” problem also occurs because of “Clean Master” application, this kind of applications contains more internet data usage than any other application. It’s better to remove any of this type of application from the device.
I got this “Green Screen” on my “Samsung Galaxy S7” display, after a heavy usage of internet and because of clean master apk. So, I tried to Restart the device, but got the same “Green Screen Display” again. Thought to connect the Samsung Phone with my Computer using the USB data cable that also did not work for me.
One of my friend told me about his Samsung Phone’s problem, he said his Samsung galaxy S5 starts flickering green after heavy usage of gaming on the phone. What he did it was quite a bit easy and effective I follow the same method to fix my “Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge” green screen problem.
Easy Steps to Fix and Solve “Green Screen Display” For Samung Galaxy Phones:
1. Press and Hold “POWER and VOLUME Down Key” together for about 10 Seconds
2. When display screen turned “Black” Release all keys, Samsung phone will restart.
3. Once the “Samsung Galaxy E7” or your device logo comes on the screen, Wait 2 minutes.
As you can see after following all these “3 Easy Steps” to fix “Green Display” for Samsung Galaxy S7, Edge, S5, S, E-7 and many other devices, Green Screen will never be on your display. If you face the Green Display problem again on your phone, Restore your device from Settings.
LAST WORDS:
I hope this “Easy Method” to fix “Green Display Error” helped you with your phone. Remember this Method works for Samsung S7 Edge, S7, E7, S, S5, S6 Edge and many other Samsung Galaxy devices. Still have any problem? Feel free to ask me in the comment below.
Do us all a huge favor: plug in, pull up the solid colors screen, wait 10 minutes, AND THEN come take a picture and post it. If it doesn't persist beyond a few minutes then it's not a major issue IMO. I realize this is AMOLED and not LCD, but it is still worth doing this check.
Ref: I am an professional tech reviewer and we have dealt with this in the past on laptops and tablets, though most do use LCD displays and not AMOLED.
No change :(. Thank you.
I'm mostly on "Auto" brightness, which seems to be slightly below 50%. I noticed this when I took the phone out of the house for the first time since I got it. I just got my case today. I was afraid to take it anywhere without a case.
What app is the burn in fixer app?
I've read that. I think this is just a defect. Burning it extremely quick. Even if it wasn't shifting a few pixels, it shouldn't happen this fast. My S5 took nearly 2 years to get any signs of burn on the notification bar and that shit is static.
Just downloaded a pic, block grey. Full screened it – saw the outline of the nav bar for like a second then it faded.
So, my screen is fine – but to avoid the problem, what colour nav bar is best?
It doesn't matter. Apps decide that color. Samsung apps will follow what you set it to but almost every other app seems to change it to black.
I spent far too long setting it to match the highlight color of the material dark theme. I'm still waiting on more themes for this badboy, but I do love that the bar is an extension of the theme. even if it took 20 minutes separately across 5 tweaking sessions to get the color just right. It's still no perfect, so i'll probably revisit it..
Edit: It looks even further in the post now that i look at it lol. Pretty sure i'm going to use this with all my themes however. Also I noticed burn in for maybe 10 seconds after unlocking from always on, thus why I'm even on this thread, but it was from the clock, not the home button, so it's most likely just a few pixels getting reacclimated to not showing white.
Every fucking AMOLED phone these threads pop up. Just stop. You won't notice it. If it's that big of a deal return the phone and get the G6.
I've had the Galaxy S2, Note 2, Nexus 6, S7 Edge, and now the S8+ and I've never had a burn in issue on any of them. Can I find it if I go turn the screen Grey? Yeah I could on my Nexus 6, but I never checked after that because you can't see it unless you go looking for it.
I've never had this problem so everyone else must be wrong! /s
Except that I did notice it. I didn't actively go looking for this. I was just looking at a photo at night and it was popping out at me. You don't need to "go looking for it", you just have to be on the right picture. Believe or not, some photos, images, videos, ect are grey.
I'll take when I get home with my old phone
Them pics boiiii
Just a minute. Just got home now. S5 exploding in a week's worth of notification after I turned it on to use it's camera. It's taking forever to respond lol
Just checked mine – the same. Navbar burn-in with home button. Other buttons barely visible to. That's really surprising. And I'm using Navbar Apps with black navbar.
Cause and solution for those interested.
OP set his nav bar to black.
Pure black background on AMOLED means those pixels are off. The rest of the screen that is showing actually colored (on pixels) will decay at a faster rate. The burn in you see is from the rest of the screen decaying more than the pixels in that black bar. To prevent burn in you want all areas of the screen to decay at roughly same rate. Have an area of the screen that is always off will cause this issue.
You can solve this by setting the nav bar to any colour other than black.
Even if this were true, that still doesn't make sense to me as I've hardly used the phone at all. And most of what I used it for was video, where the buttons don't even exist.
And again, even if this was true, it's not a valid excuse. Why? Because it doesn't even matter what YOU set the navigation bar to. It changes to black depending on the app anyway. Reddit app is using a black navigation bar despite me setting the background color back to white. Imgur app uses black navigation background color. Facebook is using black navigation background color. Youtube is using a black navigation background color. Twitter is using a black navigation background color. Unified Remote, FireTV Remote app, Textra, Camera, Chrome, Plex, Twitch, Pixiv, Google Photos, Google Calendar,Google+. hangouts, Telegram, Yelp, are all changing the navigation background to black despite setting it to white.
The only apps I can find that actually follow the navigation bar background color setting is the Home screen, the default "Phone" app, the "Gallery" app, Samsung Internet, Galaxy Apps, Contacts. basically seems like mostly Samsung apps. which makes sense.
In other words, it's beyond our control since most apps turn it black. It shouldn't be an issue in less than a week's use.
