Here’s everything new for Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Samsung’s One UI 6 replace is now dwell. It takes years of built-up options on One UI and provides a layer of refinement to it. As a outcome, when the replace rolls out to your eligible Galaxy smartphone or pill, you gained’t discover any groundbreaking new performance. What you’ll get as a substitute is an already nice expertise made higher, with considerate tweaks that complement the adjustments that Android 14 brings to the desk. Here are all of the new One UI 6 options that Samsung has added for Galaxy smartphones and tablets!

When you boot into One UI 6’s homescreen, the very first thing you’ll discover is the new font that’s used and the less complicated icon labels. Samsung has a new default font that’s used in every single place within the system now.

We have a number of new widgets with this replace. There is a new Weather insights widget that gives extra details about your native climate situations.

There can be a new digicam widget that serves extra as a devoted shortcut for user-preset digicam modes than as a dwell viewfinder. If you like a sure mixture of digicam settings, this widget will are available in very helpful.

With One UI 6, the lockscreen clock now has a number of extra customizations accessible. You can change the dimensions round and select from extra fonts and stylings.

The Quick Settings (QS) panel has gotten quite a lot of consideration within the One UI 6 replace. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings now get their very own row on the prime of the QS panel, whereas another options, like eye consolation mode and darkish mode, get their very own row on the backside. In this course of, One UI 6 does lose out on a few of its previous one-hand friendliness. Like earlier than, you may click on on the icon of the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth setting to shortly toggle it on-off, whereas tapping on the textual content will open the mini-menu that allows you to select a selected connection.

Swapping between the compact and the expanded QS panels is now simpler. Previously, you would wish one swipe down for the compact panel after which a second swipe down for the expanded model. Now, you may activate Quick Settings instantaneous entry, which helps you to swipe from the precise facet to entry the expanded model of Quick Settings straight. Swiping down from the left exhibits notifications. We’ve seen this conduct beforehand in customized ROMs and different skins like MIUI, and a few folks actually prefer it.

Alongside adjustments to the QS panel, the notification panel has additionally acquired tweaks. You now get particular person notifications as separate playing cards. This creates more room between notifications and provides them individuality, nevertheless it additionally takes up extra display house.

You can now type notifications by time, permitting you to bypass the notification precedence order if it’s essential to.

Further, the music participant notification has additionally modified. The album artwork now covers the complete background of the notification, and the progress bar leaves behind a visualizer path.

App Drawer

The app drawer now helps you to search for app-specific long-press features. So you may shortly enter into particular actions inside apps straight.

Samsung has refreshed the emoji fashion within the Samsung keyboard. They lose out on a number of the shiny look however proceed to look clear.

Samsung is preferring to not make wholesale adjustments to the digicam app, and we respect that call. What One UI 6 does is make the decision switcher simpler to entry in photograph and video mode.

The watermark setting inside the Camera app now separates the date and time choices so you may select them individually. You may also select between prime and backside alignment.

The capability to scan paperwork will get its personal standalone setting, separate from Scene Optimizer. This ought to make scanning paperwork simpler and faster while not having the Scene Optimizer to kick in and acknowledge the scene.

The digicam app now has three high quality optimization settings for pictures (balancing high quality with processing time) and a new auto-FPS setting for video. You can maintain auto-FPS off, use it for 30fps movies solely, or use it for each 30fps and 60fps movies.

The Gallery app has a new element view that allows you to shortly apply results and different edits to a picture or video. You merely must swipe up from the underside of the display to go to the element view.

The Gallery app additionally will get the multitasking enhancements that have been added in One UI 5.1.1 for foldables and tablets, specifically the two-handed drag-and-drop characteristic. You can now contact and maintain to pick pictures and movies with one hand, then drop them to a new vacation spot together with your different hand.

The Photo Editor inside the Gallery app has acquired a number of adjustments:

• The new Tools menu rearranges enhancing options.
• You can now undo and redo a number of layers of edits.
• Text enhancing now consists of a number of completely different types and backgrounds.

In addition to the new Weather widget, the Weather app now has richer information in your native climate.

Bixby Text Call is just like Google Pixel’s Call Screening operate however with Bixby as its base. With this replace, Bixby helps you to obtain extra regional languages for this characteristic. Further, now you can change between Bixby Text Call and common features in the midst of the decision.

There is a new Auto Blocker characteristic current in Settings > Security and Privacy. This characteristic blocks the set up of apps from unauthorized app shops. It additionally activates app safety checks and blocks USB cables from sending instructions to your telephone for juice-jacking makes an attempt. These options are housed underneath one toggle, whereas the superior settings, like messaging app picture safety and blocking USB-based software program updates, have their very own particular person toggles.

Modes and Routines

Much like how iOS 17 is tying in Focus modes to the lockscreen, One UI 6 is tying in modes with lockscreens. Further, there are actually extra actions to select from when organising a routine.

Catching up with Android: Toggling Airplane mode retains Wi-Fi and Bluetooth setting

Android 13 QPR1 launched a better approach to toggle Airplane mode (h/t Mishaal Rahman), whereby the telephone would bear in mind your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth states when you toggle them again on after airplane mode shuts them off. So your telephone will retain your setting the subsequent time you toggle Airplane mode.

Samsung has caught up with the bottom Android model right here, letting you utilize the improved Airplane mode toggle.

One UI 6: Complete changelog

If you’re looking for the complete changelog for the One UI 6 replace, right here it’s:

The changelog is kind of verbose, nevertheless it additionally consists of all of the adjustments which are coming to impartial apps like Samsung Internet as nicely.

When is One UI 6 coming to my system?

Samsung has formally launched the One UI 6 replace for the Galaxy S23 collection. Users in choose international locations on sure Galaxy gadgets may also entry the beta. You can discover up to date info on the schedule in our submit on One UI 6’s launch date.