is a major refresh of the user interface that has powered Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets . Nowhere is that more evident than in the notification shade and the quick panel.
While the biggest change in the notification shade—bigger notification cards—may not impress everyone, the will not give anyone a reason to complain. , and there's one new feature that stands out the most.
Samsung designed One UI to make it easier for users to access UI elements with one hand. It did that by splitting the display into viewing and interaction areas. Users could swipe down on the screen to bring buttons and interactive elements in menus and first-party Samsung apps to the bottom half of the screen.
But last year, the company gave the quick panel a makeover and . In the One UI 6.x version of the quick panel, the toggles and buttons take up the entire screen. There's also no way to change their order.
Samsung has addressed that in One UI 7 (). Now, you can rearrange the different segments and widgets any way you want. You can do that by opening the quick panel, hitting the pencil icon to go into editing mode, then long pressing the widget you wish to move.
This allows you to have the toggles and buttons you access more often in a lower position. Want the media playback widget near the bottom of the display? Great. Want the brightness slider there instead? You can do that too.
The only thing that's missing is the ability to switch the position of the brightness and volume sliders. Yes, Samsung has added a volume slider to the quick panel, and both the brightness and volume sliders share the same widget so you can't move them around independently.
But this is nitpicking at its finest. The volume slider is a new addition, so users will not have to get used to a new way of doing things. Samsung, of course, is welcome to treat this as constructive criticism and feedback that it can implement in future versions of One UI, but it will be perfectly fine if it doesn't.
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While the biggest change in the notification shade—bigger notification cards—may not impress everyone, the will not give anyone a reason to complain. , and there's one new feature that stands out the most.
Everything in the quick panel can be moved around
Samsung designed One UI to make it easier for users to access UI elements with one hand. It did that by splitting the display into viewing and interaction areas. Users could swipe down on the screen to bring buttons and interactive elements in menus and first-party Samsung apps to the bottom half of the screen.
But last year, the company gave the quick panel a makeover and . In the One UI 6.x version of the quick panel, the toggles and buttons take up the entire screen. There's also no way to change their order.
Samsung has addressed that in One UI 7 (). Now, you can rearrange the different segments and widgets any way you want. You can do that by opening the quick panel, hitting the pencil icon to go into editing mode, then long pressing the widget you wish to move.
This allows you to have the toggles and buttons you access more often in a lower position. Want the media playback widget near the bottom of the display? Great. Want the brightness slider there instead? You can do that too.
The only thing that's missing is the ability to switch the position of the brightness and volume sliders. Yes, Samsung has added a volume slider to the quick panel, and both the brightness and volume sliders share the same widget so you can't move them around independently.
But this is nitpicking at its finest. The volume slider is a new addition, so users will not have to get used to a new way of doing things. Samsung, of course, is welcome to treat this as constructive criticism and feedback that it can implement in future versions of One UI, but it will be perfectly fine if it doesn't.
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