Samsung One UI 4 is finally here.
I installed the One UI 4 beta 1 on my S21 Ultra and I have a lot to share with you guys.
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First things first, the One UI 4 beta is based on the Android 12 as you can see right on
your screen.
At the time of making this video, this Beta One UI has rolled out only for the S21 series
in a few select countries.
I installed this manually, and let me know if you guys need a tutorial on the same, I’ll
make one.
When I updated my phone and plugged in the charger, this new animation popped up and
I liked it.
Change sometimes is good and I think the old animation was a bit boring.
Anyways, let’s go ahead and start right off with the lock screen of the phone.
You can set Always On Display to turn up every time you receive a new notification.
There are some new animations for the Always-on Display.
If you’re playing music via Samsung Music Player or any other player, you can choose
the device through the Media Output button, this will let you switch between multiple
sound output devices right from the lock screen.
If you open the voice recorder on the phone and leave it open, lock the screen, a widget
appears on the lock screen which will let you record without unlocking the phone.
You can also track your monthly events using the Lock Screen calendar widget now.
Let’s talk about the quick panel, first of all, the brightness bar has been redesigned,
it's large enough to easily swipe your finger on it.
There are some new toggles, the camera, mic, and a couple of other toggles.
Using these toggles you can turn on or off the camera or mic access altogether for all
applications at once, I’ll explain this further when we talk about privacy.
The new Extra Dim feature does what its name suggests.
You can turn on or off extra dim using the accessibility button that appears on the lower
right corner after the One UI 4 update.
Dark Mode has now deep integration, it tries to turn everything dark including the wallpaper,
icons, you can see these folders, the illustrations, even the tiniest elements now turn dark.
IT enforces dark mode in all the applications regardless of the dark mode support.
It looks lovely now, and I have started liking dark mode once again.
I stopped using Dark Mode a while ago.
Home screen changes include the widgets redesign, widgets now appear like this, they look more
sorted, and it's easy to reach out to your desired widget.
It also recommends useful widgets.
The Dual Clock widget shows different background colors depending on whether it's day or night
in a city.
Samsung has enhanced the Keyboard.
It looks like Samsung was largely inspired by Google Keyboard and we can find some similar
features here.
You can access the emojis, gifs, and stickers by tapping this single button now.
Furthermore, you can combine two emojis to create a new animation in the form of a GIF.
This looks very cool, to be honest.
We have some new stickers.
And yea, the Keyboard is now powered by Grammarly writing assistant to improve your English.
We saw the option to customize sharing panel when we talked about the Good Lock 2021 on
our channel.
That feature has made its way to the One UI 4.
You can now customize the sharing screen and select what apps you want on this panel.
I’m gonna remove some clutter from this screen.
Also, the app icons now appear in this horizontal tray form, they appeared in grid form previously.
The File Manager has got a new look, you can see new icons for the options inside the File
Manager.
Samsung has added some colors to highlight the options.
There are many other tiny changes that you may notice upon using this new One UI.
Samsung’s major focus has remained on privacy, now whenever an application accesses your
phone’s micro camera, its icon appears on the top right corner, you can decide to turn
off camera or mic support for the apps you don’t feel comfortable with.
Permissions have improved a lot now.
I am the kind of guy who doesn’t like a lot of notifications cluttering my notifications
panel, and every new app I Installed, it just added more to the clutter.
Thankfully, Samsung has now brought this feature that asks you whether or not you want to allow
notifications from a specific application when you install it.
This by far has been my favorite feature in the One UI 4.
When you make calls, you find an overhauled call menu UI.
IF you go into the contacts and type a contact’s name, the text appears bold.
Some nice touches include new animations when you send someone a message in any chat application.
These are the tiny little details that are not mentioned in the changelog of the new
Android 12 One UI 4, I’m using this UI and as I discover more features, I’ll keep you
guys informed, for now, I’ll just continue with the changelog.
Samsung has made some significant changes to the camera application.
When you open the Camera App in One UI 4, it shows you 0.6x 1x 3x and 10x instead of
ultrawide normal and zoom icons.
The scene optimizer icon no longer appears for normal photos, it only appears when it's
too dark and you need the night mode.
Front cameras wide and ultrawide selfie icons have a new look too.
Video recording starts right when you tap the recording button, there’s no delay now.
You can drag your finger on the shutter button in the photo mode to start recording a video.
Single Take mode now gives you better control over the options, you can also deselect some
options in the single take mode.
Pro mode has been overhauled as well.
The UI first of all looks cleaner.
The grid lines help you make your frame horizontally perfect.
Gallery app’s story feature now shows a cover with a video preview.
The sorting of large albums is now enhanced with new options.
The album cover is shown on the top when you open a specific album.
You revert the remastered pictures to their original form even after saving those pictures.
Lastly, you can edit the date, time, and location of the photos and videos in the Gallery application.
The Photo and Video editor will now let you add new fun emojis, you can create collage
videos by combining photos and videos together, there’s a light balance option to edit the
tone of pictures.
Highlight reel editor now gives you more control, you can also revert the edited videos back
to their original form.
You can now cut a face, building, pet, or any other object and paste it onto a different
one.
Samsung has also made some changes to the AR Emoji feature.
You can use AR Emoji as a profile picture for contacts in the Samsung account.
Over 10 different expressions are available.
There are new AR Emoji stickers.
You can create dance videos with the AR Emojis and use your own drawings to create clothes
and an outlook for the emojis.
Pin window option now appears right here in the multitasking menu, no need to enable it
from the settings separately.
You can resize the picture in picture mode in the supported applications.
You can keep the current window in view while accessing edge panels, they used to blur back
in the day.
In the settings of the phone, we have a new Safety & Emergency Tab.
Here you can add your medical info, emergency contacts, and SOS messages now appear here.
Changes inside the calendar app include a layout that lets you add events instantly.
The monthly calendar widget shows important events too.
Now create shared calendars and invite other Galaxy users to join too.
The Messages app now supports images, videos, weblinks and a lot of other content in the
search window.
Samsung has largely improved the Samsung Internet.
IT gives you more suggestions as you type in the address bar and its new search widget
will let you find anything right from the home screen.
If you were using the Samsung internet in the private mode last time and you shut it
down, the next time you open it, it will open in the private mode again to protect your
privacy.
The Device care also gets an overhaul.
The main screen now shows battery and security issues and suggestions to apply fixes.
The status of the phone’s health is shown in the form of emojis.
You can also access Samsung Member Diagnostics to perform diagnostic tests to find out issues
in your phone.
Samsung Health shows a new bottom tab carrying useful features.
A new My Page tab has been added, this page shows all of your personal information and
progress.
Snacks are now a part of the food tracker.
You can invite friends and family to various challenges now.
New routines have been added, you can now perform more tasks on the phone using Bixby
routines.
Samsung has also removed restrictions for some condition combinations to give you freedom.
New accessibility options have been added to the phone.
You can adjust contrast and size at the same time with custom display mode, accessibility
features can be accessed quickly via a floating button.
I already explained the extra dim option.
?You can set a different color for the notifications of each app.
A new magnification menu has been added which now incorporates the magnifier window.
The most important thing towards the end, the Privacy.
Not Just Samsung’s one UI, but the focus of Android itself has largely remained on
privacy this time.
As I mentioned earlier, you can now view which app is accessing the camera or mic now.
You can turn off mic and camera access for all such applications.
Furthermore, you can take more control on the location access of certain applications,
you can set location access to precise for the applications you don’t fully trust.
Lastly, if you copy passwords and codes to the clipboard and you don’t want those to
fall into any wrong hands, you can view what applications are trying to access your clipboard
and save yourself some trouble.
One thing I have not mentioned in this entire video is the improvement of the search feature.
In almost all the applications.
Samsung has enhanced the search function and it is now more efficient.
The search improvement was mentioned again and again throughout the changelog which is
why I decided not to mention it again and again.
This is it with the changelog and prominent changes, there is definitely a lot more to
discover in the One UI 4 and I’ll be doing a number of follow-up videos.
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Let me know about your thoughts on this video and One UI 4, with that being said, I will
sign off and see you all in the next one.