Samsung’s One UI 7 has been facing delays one after the other, with a stable rollout now planned for January 2025. Now, after recently pushing the One UI 6 Watch stable, the Samsung team is reportedly planning to release the Beta version of One UI 7 in November 2024. The Samsung One UI 7 Beta Version is expected to roll out during the SDC 2024 on November 21st. The One UI 7 will most likely hit the Galaxy S24 Series first, followed by older devices later on. The company didn’t reveal much about the One UI 7 during the global SDC last month, but what we know is it will be a major revamp from One UI 6 and will power the Samsung Galaxy S25 Series.
The SDC 2024 doesn’t mention any particular announcement or speaker for One UI 7, but since major brands like Google release Android Betas and stable updates after a major event, Samsung might do the same.
Ahead of the rollout, some new features of Samsung One UI 7 have surfaced online. Let us have a look at what’s expected with One UI 7.
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Samsung One UI 7: New Features (Expected)
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- Samsung is drawing inspiration for app icons from iOS 18. This option will be picked up from Settings and it will expand the icon size and hide the app names. One can go back to the normal view with labels by selecting the Classic option.
- One UI 7 will also get a revamped Quick Settings panel. The WiFi and Bluetooth pills are at the top followed by a cluster of smaller quick settings tiles. There will also be brightness and audio sliders.
- Blurring differences between Android and iOS, Samsung will bring a new option to show notifications on a separate page from quick settings.
- The default set of icons in One UI 7 will also see a redesign. The icons will have a more rounded iconography with distinct hues to tell them apart.
- Earlier at Smartprix, we shared a video that shows one more element taken from iOS that works like Dynamic Island. There is a small pill-shaped notification on the left side of the status bar, that can be long-pressed to expand.
- The battery indicator receives a pill-shaped design with a battery percentage inside.
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- One UI 7 will reportedly come with quicker and more responsive app opening and closing animations. There are interruptible animations as well in case you decide to close the app midway as it opens.
- App lock is helpful when you don’t want others to snoop around your device.
- Samsung is also adopting live activities from iOS for the lock screen on One UI 7. The feature will be called a Control area and work similar to Live activities.
- New resizable widgets for the lock screen will be available.
- Adding any shortcut that you would want to jump to from the lock screen will be possible.
- Continuity Notifications will allow Samsung to take advantage of its ecosystem.
- The camera app will also get a redesign bringing controls and options to the bottom section of the app.
- Samsung’s AR Emoji is getting a replacement in the form of Galaxy Avatar. It will sync with the Samsung Cloud option followed by Avatar Stickers and Avatar Camera. There are also new clothes, profiles, and more options.
- One UI 7 will get a revamped gallery and phone apps.
- Samsung aims to focus even more on Galaxy AI features which means a new version of Bixby with LLM capabilities.
- Dark theme for app icons.
- A vertical app drawer with the next version of Samsung’s Android skin is also expected.
Samsung Galaxy One UI 7 will first roll out on the Galaxy S24 Series and Galaxy S25 Series, followed by the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Series.
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