the galaxy z fold 3 has finally received its one ui 4.0 and android 12 update some of the features
you will have noticed and others may have flown under your radar so i'm going to pick
out the ones that i think are important and the ones worth taking a look at stay tuned
hello everyone welcome to tech it easy so android 12 it got off to a bit of a shaky start
on the fold 3. if you didn't hear already there were some issues upon the initial release but
everything seems to be fixed now and we do now have stable versions of android 12 and one ui 4.0
on our fold threes so let's take a look at some of these features the first feature that i want to
point out is the new extra dim mode now personally this is something that i've been wanting on the
phone for a very long time essentially what it will do is make the phone a little bit easier on
the eyes when you're viewing it at night time and the minimum brightness isn't quite working for you
now you can get to this new setting in a few ways but i've just added it to my hotbar at the top
like so this is probably one of the most useful features of the update in my opinion and it's
definitely something that i know a lot of you are going to get some use out of moving on samsung
have been giving security and peace of mind a lot of thought apparently you will now get a
microphone or camera icon appear in the top right corner of your screen whenever your phone's camera
or microphone is in use it might seem pointless at first and perhaps even a little annoying but with
the rise in cyber crimes i personally feel a lot safer having this on my phone and it means that
if anyone wants to hack my phone i will know if they are using my camera or my microphone even if
they try to hide it from me moving away from the more serious stuff samsung have added a feature
that now lets you customize the theme on your smartphone now this is something you could always
do by downloading theme park but the new update does it automatically for you based off your
wallpaper for example if i pick this wallpaper it will choose a color palette for my phone based off
the colors in the wallpaper you can of course choose not to have this active but i personally
would never say no to more customization features again you can do all this in theme park still but
it's actually quite long-winded if you've gone into it before so this is a really nice way to get
your theme matching with your wallpaper a couple of other things that have changed you now get
a brighter more colorful animation when you plug your phone into charge and you might have also
noticed that the brightness setting bar has also been made a lot bigger and a lot more prominent i
do like this but i think it's a little bit too big if you ask me certainly more practical though i'll
give it that also around this area when we swipe down on the settings tab the whole page is now
completely different it seems to have been made a little bit smaller with your sim cards being made
a priority now this again is something that's a little bit alien to me because i don't think
that the average consumer will generally have two sim cards in their phone i know a lot of people
do i even have two sim cards in my phone but i'm not sure it's something that really needed such
a big focus because it's probably not something that people are going to be changing too often
some other features that have been changed on the customization front is the widget menu now this
has been changed to a sort of list form menu which should make it easier for finding your different
settings and widgets additionally we have a better always-on display mode with new animated
stickers so you never miss anything we also have an enhanced dark mode which now apparently affects
wallpapers and apps alike and in certain apps it will make the colors even darker lastly on
the customization front the samsung keyboard has now also changed probably my least favorite change
of this update is going to take me a while to get used to it i don't really have any comments on the
practicality of it i almost think it's been made too complicated if you ask me i actually preferred
it the old way but again it's probably something you're gonna get used to over time now there have
been a bunch of changes that have been done on the calendar and ar emojis personally don't feel like
they are very important so we are going to skip those but lastly there have been a few changes
to the camera and photo editor just giving you a bit more control as well as some better automated
features to get those really nice shots you can also see there have been some subtle ui design
changes inside the camera app as well it does look better in my opinion but i'm not sure if it
offered any actual practical benefits anyway guys that was just a super quick gloss over one ui 4.0
and android 12 on the galaxy fold 3. there's definitely more features to come out of this
update i just picked out the ones that i thought were important and the ones you can just instantly
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