As we’ve established one million occasions, adopting options discovered on competing telephones isn’t essentially a foul factor – it may be fairly the other.
And whereas final yr’s One UI 6.0 replace blatantly copied a bunch of iOS 17 design components, this yr’s One UI 7.0 has shocked me positively (to date).
Samsung has put its twist on some current iPhone/Android options and UI components, and I actually do consider this was the precise transfer! In reality, from what I’ve seen within the One UI 7 beta, I can say I think about myself utilizing a Galaxy flagship as my main cellphone now…
For instance:
- Galaxy telephones operating One UI 7 will group notifications – very similar to iOS
- The notification panel and fast settings panel are actually separate – swiping down from the left will carry down the notifications, and swiping down from the precise – fast settings
Once more – very very similar to the iPhone, however (not like Apple) Samsung provides you the selection to revert again to the “outdated methods”, which is a significant win for everybody.Particularly resulting from the truth that (with the brand new method of doing issues) swiping down from wherever on the display screen will now carry down the Notification panel – and never the Fast settings (because it was earlier than). Which is a puzzling choice?!
Nonetheless, as I mentioned, reverting again to the outdated swipe controls may even offer you again the choice to swipe wherever on the display screen to carry down THE RIGHT panel – the Fast settings panel. And I can’t do this on my iPhone.
Samsung’s Digicam app will make me take extra pictures and movies – even when their high quality isn’t nearly as good because the competitors’s
Samsung’s Digicam app took after the iPhone’s Digicam app design some time in the past – significantly with One UI 5 and One UI 6, the place even the picture editor grew to become very iPhone-like.
However now, Samsung has set itself other than the iPhone by inserting each single digital camera button/setting on the underside half of the Digicam app, which goes to make one-handed operation when taking pictures/movies SO a lot simpler. Significantly on massive telephones just like the Galaxy Plus and Galaxy Extremely.
The Digicam app additionally allows you to assign customized publicity for various picture/video modes that don’t change each time you open the app, which is one other function borrowed from the iPhone, however an awesome one.
Talking of pictures, I can solely want I had this function on my iPhone, and that is the power to create picture AND video collages proper from Samsung’s Gallery app – with a format of my selection.
Samsung has two Dynamic Islands with none gaping holes – not as fairly because the iPhone, however way more sensible
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- Being accessible on the Lock display screen
- Being positioned on the underside relatively than the very prime
- Additionally being accessible on the highest (subsequent to the notification bar) while you wish to faucet it and swap between fast app controls
I’m not saying Samsung’s method of implementing “Dynamic Island” on the Galaxy is ideal – for instance, the icons you click on to get the short actions to pop up are tiny, as a result of they don’t have their designated house to occupy – in different phrases, a big digital camera cutout.
Nonetheless, the Lock display screen implementation makes up for it by being arguably extra sensible, as a result of it’s principally a widget stack you’ll be able to scroll by way of and carry out equivalent controls like on the iPhone’s Dynamic Island / stacked widgets.
And-it-is-in-the-right-spot. On-the-bottom. Come-on-now.
Samsung telephones now get (nearly) the whole lot proper – as an iPhone person, I’m tremendous jealous
After all, the adjustments to One UI 7 aren’t the only cause I might think about using a Samsung as my main cellphone, however that’s truly an awesome factor.
Samsung telephones already get loads of issues proper – just like the class-leading AI expertise, the dependable software program assist, distinctive shows (no less than on the Extremely mannequin), and the superb (though not one of the best) digital camera and battery expertise.
As an iPhone person (who’s been utilizing Pixel/Galaxy flagships however not as his main telephones), I’d say Samsung hasn’t made any mind-blowing adjustments to its software program, however the ones it made are sufficient to make me think about using a Samsung as my major cellphone. And that’s fairly main stuff for me.
For instance, there was by no means an opportunity I’d use the Galaxy S24 Extremely as my major cellphone resulting from how huge it’s – and One UI 6 did little or no to make the expertise of utilizing this large cellphone with one hand simpler.
In contrast to One UI 6, One UI 7 has taken main steps in the precise course with the “Now Bar”, the key Digicam app redesign with all controls on the underside, and even smaller issues geared toward making one-hand use higher, just like the vertical app drawer, and all vital Search bars being moved to the very backside of the display screen – just like the one within the app drawer, and the one in Settings.
One UI 7 – now, I REALLY wish to substitute my Pixel Fold with a Galaxy Fold
That is for sure one thing I want I had on my large iPhone 15 Professional Max, however proper now, Apple doesn’t even come shut to creating massive iPhones extra usable. I gained’t even get into the entire multitasking factor, which continues to be accessible on Galaxy, and nonetheless one million occasions higher than on iPhone.
My “major” Android cellphone proper now’s the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold, and if I had to decide on an Android cellphone to make use of alongside my iPhone 13 mini, it’d positively be a foldable resulting from how the 2 complement one another.
And whereas I used to be already considering switching to a Galaxy foldable earlier than, One UI 7’s new sensible updates are pushing me nearer and nearer to changing my Pixel Fold with a Galaxy Fold.