Here is the whole lot new for Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Samsung’s One UI 6 replace takes years of built-up options on One UI and provides a layer of refinement to it. Because of this, when the replace rolls out to your eligible Galaxy smartphone or pill, you received’t discover any groundbreaking new performance. What you’re going to get as an alternative is an already nice expertise made higher, with considerate tweaks that complement the adjustments that Android 14 brings to the desk. Listed below are all the brand new One UI 6 options that Samsung has added for Galaxy smartphones and tablets!

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

We’ve got a number of new widgets with this replace. There’s a new Climate insights widget that gives extra details about your native climate situations.

There’s additionally a brand new digicam widget that serves extra as a devoted shortcut for user-preset digicam modes than as a stay viewfinder. In the event you favor a sure mixture of digicam settings, this widget will are available very helpful.

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

The Fast Settings (QS) panel has gotten lots 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. On 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 rapidly toggle it on-off, whereas tapping on the textual content will open the mini-menu that permits you to select a selected connection.

Swapping between the compact and the expanded QS panels is now simpler. Beforehand, you would want one swipe down for the compact panel after which a second swipe down for the expanded model. Now, you may activate Fast Settings instantaneous entry, which helps you to swipe from the suitable aspect to entry the expanded model of Fast 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 offers them individuality, but it surely additionally takes up extra display screen house.

Now you can type notifications by time, permitting you to bypass the notification precedence order if you could.

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

App Drawer

The app drawer now permits you to seek for app-specific long-press capabilities. So you may rapidly enter into particular actions inside apps straight.

Samsung has refreshed the emoji model within the Samsung keyboard. They lose out on a few 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 picture and video mode.

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

The flexibility to scan paperwork will get its personal standalone setting, separate from Scene Optimizer. This could 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 photographs (balancing high quality with processing time) and a brand new auto-FPS setting for video. You possibly can preserve auto-FPS off, use it for 30fps movies solely, or use it for each 30fps and 60fps movies.

The Gallery app has a brand new element view that permits you to rapidly apply results and different edits to a picture or video. You merely must swipe up from the underside of the display screen 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, particularly the two-handed drag-and-drop characteristic. Now you can contact and maintain to pick out photographs and movies with one hand, then drop them to a brand new vacation spot together with your different hand.

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

• The brand new Instruments menu rearranges enhancing options.
• Now you can undo and redo a number of layers of edits.
• Textual content enhancing now contains a number of completely different kinds and backgrounds.

Along with the brand new Climate widget, the Climate app now has richer information in your native climate.

Bixby Textual content Name is just like Google Pixel’s Name Screening operate however with Bixby as its base. With this replace, Bixby permits you to obtain extra regional languages for this characteristic. Additional, now you can swap between Bixby Textual content Name and common capabilities in the course of the decision.

There’s a new Auto Blocker characteristic current in Settings > Safety and Privateness. 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 beneath 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

Very like how iOS 17 is tying in Focus modes to the lockscreen, One UI 6 is tying in modes with lockscreens. Additional, there at the moment are extra actions to select from when establishing a routine.

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

Android 13 QPR1 launched a wiser technique to toggle Airplane mode (h/t Mishaal Rahman), whereby the telephone would keep in mind your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth states if you happen to toggle them again on after airplane mode shuts them off. So your telephone will retain your setting the following 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: Full changelog

In case you are in search of the total changelog for the One UI 6 replace, right here it’s:

The changelog is sort of verbose, but it surely additionally contains all of the adjustments which can be coming to unbiased apps like Samsung Web as effectively.

When is One UI 6 coming to my gadget?

Samsung has not formally launched the timeline for One UI 6 rollout. Nonetheless, customers in choose nations on sure Galaxy units can now entry the beta. You’ll find up to date info on the schedule in our put up on One UI 6’s launch date.