With One UI, the same feature is coming to Samsung’s native Gallery app. I have accidentally deleted many photos and if not for the Trash feature of Google Photos, I would have lost many important photos. One of my favorite features of Google Photos is its trash functionality which keeps the deleted photos saved for a certain period of time. Along with the fact that this looks good, it also makes up for really comfortable viewing, especially at night. The dark mode looks gorgeous on our Note 9 thanks to its OLED edge-to-edge screen. This means you will get a dark notification panel, dark Settings app, dark app drawer, and so forth and so on. Since the dark mode is system-wide, every UI element along with all the native applications support it. One UI is also introducing one of the most user-requested features which is a complete system-wide dark mode, and I love it. Apart from these small hiccups, I think Samsung has done a great job with design here. One such place is the Bixby screen which I really don’t like. Most of the times these rounded edges look quite cool, however, there are some places where they seem a little overkill. It is also inspired by the hardware design of the company’s flagship smartphones which means you will see a lot of rounded edges all through the user interface. While the icons still possess a squircle shape and look a bit cartoonish, the new icons are way better than the previous Experience UI icons. Firstly, there are new icons which are way flatter and normal. One UI is also bringing a huge overhaul to the overall looks of the UI. It’s still a pretty great feature and one we can’t wait to test out. That said, the feature was not working during the beta and we will have to wait for future versions of the skin to see if it works properly or not. This will be a huge improvement for SD card users. This will allow users to install apps and games on the SD card without any problem. What this means is that the SD card won’t be treated as an additional memory rather it will be read as the internal memory of the phone. The feature basically allows you to use a microSD card as extended phone memory. One of the biggest improvements coming with One UI is a feature called Adoptable Storage. Similar to buttons, the gestures for going back and invoking recent apps menu are interchangeable. So, you will swipe up from the bottom left to go back, bottom middle to go home, and bottom right to open the recent apps menu. Samsung implementation of gestures is similar to the ones that we saw in phones from Oppo and Vivo. Once you enable the gesture navigation, you will be able to navigate your smartphone just using gestures. Basically, users can opt to use the gesture navigation instead of the Android buttons. With One UI, Samsung is also releasing its own take on the gesture style navigation. Overall, the new UI is very friendly for one-handed use and I love it. I also love the fact that Samsung has shifted the interactive buttons from the top to the bottom, which makes it very easy to interact with them using just one hand. The best part is that the viewing area disappears once you scroll down the app which basically means that you are not losing any screen real-estate. So now, users will be able to interact with the topmost controls with ease. This has been implemented throughout the native apps. Basically, the new UI brings a large viewing area at the top and an interaction area on the bottom half. The new UI introduces a fresh look which makes the phone really easy to interact with using only one hand. With One UI, Samsung is hoping to tackle the biggest problem that is associated with the ever-increasing smartphone sizes, the one-handed usability of the phone.
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