One of the spectacular options in One UI 7.0 is the Now Bar. It’s a utterly new UI ingredient that showcases ongoing actions on the telephone and seems on the lock display. Nonetheless, Now Bar is at present suitable solely with a number of inventory apps. Let’s have a better take a look at it.
Now Bar is a gorgeous-looking characteristic in One UI 7
The Now Bar on One UI 7.0 shows ongoing actions, like music playback and an energetic timer, on Galaxy telephones. It’s suitable with the next apps and actions:
- Bixby
- Clock (stopwatch and timer)
- Emergency Sharing
- Interpreter
- Maps
- Samsung Well being
- Samsung Notes
- Voice Recorder
It’s a pill-shaped UI ingredient that first seems on the left facet of the standing bar on the prime of the display with associated controls (pause, cease, and many others). If you click on it, it maximizes to a pill-shaped bar on the prime of the display. If you lock the telephone’s display, the Now Bar seems on the backside of the lock display.
You possibly can watch it in motion in our in-depth video beneath.
If you play audio or video, the Now Bar seems with album artwork and music playback controls (earlier observe, play/pause, and subsequent observe). If you click on the music playback Now Bar on the lock display, it reveals extra info together with a much bigger album artwork in the midst of the display and a media output switcher. You possibly can see that in our photos beneath.
When a number of ongoing movies are current, the Now Bar widgets for every exercise are stacked on prime of one another, and you’ll cycle between them by flicking these widgets up or down.
There may be even a Now Bar that seems on the lock display whenever you join your telephone to a charger. It shows the charging velocity, the remaining time for a full cost, and the present cost stage. The Now Bar for charging additionally acts as a progress bar, as the colour stuffed up within the pill-shaped ingredient corresponds to the present battery cost stage.
The Now Bar at present solely works with some inventory Samsung apps and system providers, however we hope Samsung will assist third-party apps with Android 16 and One UI 8.0. A earlier report indicated that Google is internally engaged on an iOS-like Reside Actions characteristic for Android 16, which might be built-in into the Now Bar for One UI.