Samsung is revamping the digital camera interface on Galaxy smartphones with Android 15 and One UI 7, and within the course of, the corporate has made one characteristic of the extraordinarily helpful Digital camera Assistant app pointless.

Again in 2022, Samsung launched the Digital camera Assistant app for flagship and choose mid-range smartphones that added some superior settings and tweaks that weren’t out there within the inventory digital camera app out of the field. Amongst these tweaks was the choice so as to add persistent buttons for added zoom ranges, equivalent to 2x and 100x, to the viewfinder.

One UI 7 has simpler and improved zoom management in varied digital camera modes

Beginning with One UI 7, these extra zoom ranges are enabled by default and now not require the Digital camera Assistant app. On a Galaxy S24 Extremely, you will notice the 0.6x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, and 10x buttons always, and tapping any of them will carry up the 30x and 100x buttons as nicely.

On a Galaxy S24 or S24+, you get 0.6x, 1x, 2x, and 3x by default and might faucet them to carry up the 10x, 20x, and 30x buttons. As earlier than, lengthy urgent any zoom button will carry up a slider that permits you to manually enhance and reduce magnification to any worth between the supported zoom vary of your machine.

This transformation applies to each the picture and video modes, although the latter will proceed to have a a lot smaller most zoom degree. Samsung has additionally improved the zoom management within the Professional video mode. Now you can management the zoom velocity for smoother transitions, as Samsung places it. This isn’t the case for the usual video recording mode, although that will change later as One UI 7 continues to be in growth.

Higher zoom management is not the one change that is coming to the Samsung digital camera app with One UI 7. Samsung has additionally redesigned the UI to carry all vital controls to the underside of the display screen for simpler one-handed entry. This extends to the mode choice menu. You now see all of the totally different modes within the backside half of the display screen.

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