Samsung One Ui 7.0

okay - noticed the following changes to my phone

1) now bar in the lock screen and always on display - busy getting that to setup to a way that i like - it shows the media player and sports score notifications amongst other things - those two immediately affected me and how i use my phone

2) separated notifications and quick settings - i quite like this because they have added more quick settings which you can remove if you don't like them - and the notifications look different and you can set them to be short or more verbose (whichever you prefer)

3) vertical app drawer if you set to alphabetical order - as well as a scrolling arrow which shows the letter of the alphabet that you have reached

4) being able to enlarge folders on your homescreen - and when the folder is enlarged you can click on apps within the boundraries of the folder to directly open the app without opening the folder unless there are too many apps contained in that folder and you can't see the icon without scrolling to them

5) many more widgets available to enhance the look and functionality of your homescreen - all widgets are also now stackable ie so you can swipe the widget aside and you can have a different widget representing another app underneath that (as many as you like) previously from what i know in One UI7.1 the google bar on the home page was stackable like this - but the stacking feature is now available for all widgets that you use on your home pages

6) many app icons look very different from what they used to - to me these new ones look more modern (apple users may complain that they copied apple even more now :ROFL:)

7) now my phone includes ambient wallpaper mode (whichis a fun thing but a waste since you should have the weather app to tell you the weather without needing a visual representation on your lock screen wallpaper

8) i thought that the S24FE was not going to get the audio eraser but according to my AI list it seems to be there - not sure if its working but its listed

9) S24FE did also get call recording and you can transcribe recorded calls - but the recording has to be good because the transcription can be wonky at the best of times - i wasn't too happy with the transcription of some of the recordings i made when i tested the feature - it doesn't seem to hear too well (even on the regular voice recordings - actually even more worse on the voice recordings) - i tried looking for a way to do transcription of other saved fls but the transcribe function only works on whatever was recorded and saved on the Samsung Voice recorder

10) recently used apps has changed to a more pleasing look with overlapping pages shown instead of the prior view where the pages were side by side - i'm a huge fan of the new look here

this is the stuff i noticed since i did the update at 6PM to now (11PM) - will keep on adding whatever changes i see but there are enough to keep me happy for a while before i start playing around with Good Lock
 
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okay - noticed the following changes to my phone

1) now bar in the lock screen and always on display - busy getting that to setup to a way that i like - it shows the media player and sports score notifications amongst other things - those two immediately affected me and how i use my phone

2) separated notifications and quick settings - i quite like this because they have added more quick settings which you can remove if you don't like them - and the notifications look different and you can set them to be short or more verbose (whichever you prefer)

3) vertical app drawer if you set to alphabetical order - as well as a scrolling arrow which shows the letter of the alphabet that you have reached

4) being able to enlarge folders on your homescreen - and when the folder is enlarged you can click on apps within the boundraries of the folder to directly open the app without opening the folder unless there are too many apps contained in that folder and you can't see the icon without scrolling to them

5) many more widgets available to enhance the look and functionality of your homescreen - all widgets are also now stackable ie so you can swipe the widget aside and you can have a different widget representing another app underneath that (as many as you like) previously from what i know in One UI7.1 the google bar on the home page was stackable like this - but the stacking feature is now available for all widgets that you use on your home pages

6) many app icons look very different from what they used to - to me these new ones look more modern (apple users may complain that they copied apple even more now :ROFL:)

7) now my phone includes ambient wallpaper mode (whichis a fun thing but a waste since you should have the weather app to tell you the weather without needing a visual representation on your lock screen wallpaper

8) i thought that the S24FE was not going to get the audio eraser but according to my AI list it seems to be there - not sure if its working but its listed

9) S24FE did also get call recording and you can transcribe recorded calls - but the recording has to be good because the transcription can be wonky at the best of times - i wasn't too happy with the transcription of some of the recordings i made when i tested the feature - it doesn't seem to hear too well (even on the regular voice recordings - actually even more worse on the voice recordings) - i tried looking for a way to do transcription of other saved fls but the transcribe function only works on whatever was recorded and saved on the Samsung Voice recorder

10) recently used apps has changed to a more pleasing look with overlapping pages shown instead of the prior view where the pages were side by side - i'm a huge fan of the new look here

this is the stuff i noticed since i did the update at 6PM to now (11PM) - will keep on adding whatever changes i see but there are enough to keep me happy for a while before i start playing around with Good Lock
Finally Call Recording? I thought that this wasn't available in South Africa and you'd have to change the region to Thailand or India or so I read for this to work?
 
Finally Call Recording? I thought that this wasn't available in South Africa and you'd have to change the region to Thailand or India or so I read for this to work?

the guys were talking about it in the S24 thread - it appears in the S24 and S24+ as well as the S24 Ultra so i assume that it should work in any S series where they mention it in the AI features (including the S23, S22 and S21 as well) - a Google search reveals the following information in terms of voice recording and SA

call recording.jpg

its too late now to make a call and test it - i will test it tomorrow at a more normal time than after midnight and see if it actually works - but they mention it in the transcript assist section of the Galaxy AI sub-menu in settings - which is why i say the S24FE also has it besides for the flagship S24 models - the transcription i was trying was from voice recording made - i did not try the call recordings bit yet ..... and i got lazy and forgot about it ..... besides i don't really need it BUT its a nice to have

EDIT : see post #70 for the evidence that it is available on the ZA models
 
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For me what's noticeable was the supersized battery button (pill) that now looks horrible and not aligned to the wifi/signal icons next to it.

The S25 had a wider but "slimmer on the vertical aspect" version which looked way better - not sure if they left those or converted them to the Goodyear blimp too ☹️
 
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S23FE
Had it installed for a week now and it's the first time I am impressed with a update.
 
Finally Call Recording? I thought that this wasn't available in South Africa and you'd have to change the region to Thailand or India or so I read for this to work?

silly me - i just had a look at call settings and this was staring me in the face so yep this is what i saw when i said call recordings were available in the SA update

Call Recordings.jpg
 
So far I am OK with it on my S23FE. But as someone said, the battery blimp looks horrible.
 
So far I am OK with it on my S23FE. But as someone said, the battery blimp looks horrible.

maybe we should all complain to Samsung about how schit it looks - if they get flooded with complaints about it they might change it 🤷‍♂️
 
For me what's noticeable was the supersized battery button (pill) that now looks horrible and not aligned to the wifi/signal icons next to it.

the S25 originally had this - i much prefer the look of this and i don't know why they did not keep it

One UI7 charging indicator.jpg

the beta was using this - the one on the top that says beta 3 (pic from Reddit)

battery indicator.jpg
 
i cant be fussed either way... all tha AI stuff if gimmicky

OS updates must be for the better, make the battery last longer and the OS better... ok cool

But im not staying up late at night waiting for the update... as long as it gets to the phone eventually and they keep their promises with regards to support for however many years... thats all
 
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