Samsung One UI 6: Is Android 14 for Galaxy better than Pixel UI?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Samsung's One UI 6 is here, bringing Android 14 to the Galaxy S23 series, and it's got me thinking about how phone UI has evolved over recent years.
Every now and again, there'll be an enormous big-deal design overhaul -- something like an iOS 7 or Android 12, that completely changes the look and feel of the platform. Then, over the years, more and more stuff gradually gets piled on top of that UI until, inevitably, the house of cards collapses and there's another major overhaul -- another generational design change.
And it feels sorta like we're at the end of that cycle now with Samsung, five years on from the debut of this design language in One UI 1.0. But at the same time, One UI 6, I think, gives us a small glimpse of what's beyond, in Samsung's next design cycle. Let's take a look at what's new!
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I understand Samsung trying to tread the tight rope between pixel and ios in an attempt to be relatable to western customer base, but they were right with their one hand ability. All they need to do is work on the animations a lot and I believe they will be doing so much better.
Are the animations still bad on One UI 6 beta? I've heard it's worse than 5.1.
Never understand what people mean when they say animations are bad with Galaxy devices. My S22U is one of the most smooth feeling devices I've used. Animations are excellent with the stock launcher. Feels just as smooth as a Pixel phone to me
@@oneminutewonder77Agree. Using a S21 at the moment
@@kraithaywire There are some issues yes. Some jitters, and glitches when switching between apps, it’s annoying. But it’s the first beta, so the next ones will probably be improved.
@@oneminutewonder77 An example, fingerprint unlock. The screen just turns on in a single frame. It doesn't have a transition. Same thing goes for a few other places. It's not laggy, they just don't bother with making those nice-to-have animations. Quite annoying.
Samsung should hire some animation expert dev to make perfect their animation like pixel phones or IOS in everywhere. Software and hardware enhancement comes every year, but they need to fix their basic animations with zero stuttering experience.
yeah, samsung animations sucks even on a powerful flagship phone, they're not properly optimised, specially gesture navigation animations look....forced
@@jahidsarkar3768yes exactly they do feel "forced" they're not very smooth at all. 80% of the time i swipe the gesture bar it lags like a second and that is *not* what i paid flagship price for. Also for some freaking reasom my back gesture always triggers a screen function before going back and it is so annoying.
@@catto4589 yeah. And one ui itself just keeps getting worse with every update....I loved One UI 2...but now....6.0 just makes it worse....it's Samsung, they can't help it. Why don't they understand they don't have to change and re arrange everything with every update. Work on your bad animations dang it
I own a Samsung Galaxy S23 ultra, and I have not experienced bad animations.
@@jaydawg3031 It sounds like you haven't tried an iPhone (I use a galaxy device too, not being biased) there are A LOT of room for improvement on smoothness and consistency. It's literally the only thing holding back the UI for me because everything else is so much better in terms of customizability and personalization.
While I agree that the quick settings panel of Samsung was due for a design change for a long time now, choosing form over function by making the UI not suited for one hand use pretty much destroys the vision Samsung had for OneUI. I wish there's an option to keep the current layout. Function over form.
Nope wasn't needed...stupid to change especially for stupid cosmetic changes...animation concerns are moronic cause you see them for only a very short time!!! But then
Fools are never satisfied and worry about unimportant thing
Buy a phone that’s not 7 feet tall and you’ll have no issue using one hand
I personally don't really get the difficulty of using a larger phone one handed. I have absolutely no problem using my Z Flip 4 with one hand. My finger gymnastics are incredible. Been doing it since I was like 17 and now I'm 20
@@LovecraftianGodsKiller I hold S22 Ultra in left hand and type with right hand with no problem without using swipes or 1 hand
@@KingPancakeZx I got Ultra and usually have in left hand and type with right but once in a while will use one handed and works fine although I m not into gestures
I do not like the big tiles on the pixel ui especially the wifi toggle. Adds an extra step for no reason. Pixel ui needs more options like double tap to turn off screen. I missed one ui when i had a pixel.
I've been using many UIs, and for me, Samsung has just the most complete UI. It's not the best, but regarding personalisation and abilities of features, it's just great. The worst for me was from iPhone - personalization just dont exit on iPhone. xDIt's a pity that there is no official SamsungDEX for desktops as standalone OS, i would use it. xD
ios is primitive in everything about it.
I think it was Max Weinbach on Twitter who said Samsung is moving in the direction that Chienese OEMs are with their UIs. And I REALLY hope that's not the case. If so I'll have to switch to Pixel.
I wish there was an option to do a second swipe and bring down the toggles at the top for Wifi and Bluetooth so theyre easier to reach.
One UI has been really really good for a while now, and I think some of it is even better than Pixel's UI, and don't even get me started on Apple's.
Default ui is abit boring. Samsung if pretty good ATM
I still prefer the old quick panel if you are using s23 ultra you would understand, everything is easier to reach
It's literally become two ui now
@@fantasytky28LOL
there must be an option to change samsung keyboard's vibration precisely in ms (like in g-board). hope you provide this info to the devs as one of the suggestions in feedback
Never
They should give the option to hide the names of the quick settings tiles. It will look so much cleaner.
How can you download it in the UK?
Very well explained
Love your review on the one ui 6
I'm thankful for all the changes except for the quick settings that lost the one handed capability.
Sir internat speed miter option available?
When they putting setting button down?
where is the ultra hdr photo thing on android14？
Will this be available on the a54 5g? Or no
There is a lack of transition animations when doing various actions in the UI. And those that do have, its not smooth. Don't get me wrong - its not a lack of speed, but its lack of number of actual frames in the transition animarions or a lack thereof, I guess. I believe thats the reason why iOS feels so responsive which increases precieved speed and fluidity. Anyways, OneUI is awesome with all its powerful features, but Samsung really needs to work on making their entire UI as fluid & smooth as iOS.
The animations in iOS are designed to mask the slow opening of the apps giving you that feeling of fluidity. Unlike Android you don't have the option to make the animations faster.
Do you have an example of this?
You can scale the animations
@@jgjg26 I don't think most people could easily perceive the actual speed. What matters is perceived fluidity.
And yes, it's a good thing that Android allows us to increase the speed of animations thereby increasing the actual speed of app opening, however, it doesn't resolve the issue of decreased perceived fluidity. And the only way to reaolve that would be to add more number of actual frames in the transition animations !
Animations, regardless of whatever speed they are at, are a major component of perceived fluidity.
my s23 ultra is on one ui 5.1.. i dont have the 6 available...
Awesome video. Although 2 handed gesture to move apps from page to page or photos from app to app on iOS does exist. Just tried it to make sure 5:39
Yep, was about to comment this
That music visual look is actually a revamp of their Lock Screen widget. If you tap the picture of an album / track… oh wait. I have an iPhone. Looks very familiar 😂
When for a14 5g ?
How instal??
I still can't understand why they can't figure out animations...
Things just blur in or fade in out of nowhere. They should really check out Google and how they handle UI elements on Pixel devices.
Yeah the overall experience needs some serious improvements. I feel like the icons and stuff from touchwiz looked better than the cartoonish icons now being used by Samsung
Also the fact that they made them so small on some devices is another annoying aspect
One ui6 will need a number of updates to bring it definitely up to date
Wallpaper link please
I want the wallpaper link pls
Galaxy S20 FE 5g, be getting this or not?
When will s22 ultra users receive this update
I want the icon packs to be like Nothing's, which apply the app icons to all apps rather than just supported apps.
The Theme Park app from Good Lock can do that. But I think it doesn't work with the dynamic calendar/clock icons.
Let's face the facts that we just love trying new gimmicks. Most of the users of these phones don't care about that much stuff but it's very clear Samsung has the best looking and sustainability. Most of my friends can't live with phones like Pixel or Nothing, they are really niche ones. Even my dad says to Google "what's this apps from 2012?" Simplicity isn't the best always and doesn't fit every culture like current design trends.
Why apple sells simplicity till they ruined it with 17
I love how the screen record he shows for autoblocker is exactly how I got the beta (at&t hates us)
What do you mean?
2:03 thats literally one of its best features for me personally....
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You don't talk accessibility?
I wish they could offer vertical app drawer and round icons.
They do via goodlock
@@s1dfrfr does it offer round icon shapes?
yes
Awesome. Thank you guys 🙌🏼
With theme park you can customise to any shapes
I'm so far liking this update I don't know what people are talking about calling OneUI outdated, ugly, etc. when it's simply not. My only complaint is the new quick settings panel. If they really want to put wifi and bluetooth buttons on top they can simply let us arrange the icons on notifications panel which they do with this new update so I don't see the reason to totally change quick settings panel. I do hope that they don't stick with this design on official release because I simple will not update for this reason alone.
Totally agree with you. The new quick settings panel killed it's best feature, one handed usage. In my opinion the one ui 5 design looks better and is more practical. If they change this new design to keep the categories thing, but push the buttons to the lower part of the display, it would be awesome
this might be the update i wont be updating to. sticking with one ui 5@@tcmmorariu
true but you will still have the option to change it, so it wouldn't really matter
@@tcmmorariuIt's literally become two ui now
Exactly
They're doing well with OneUI, there are some stuff that need improvement, like what you mentioned about fluidity. The way it looks in general is not my absolute favorite, I never really liked samsung's skin that much, but it's probably my second favorite out of what's available now, my top choice being Material U, but we don't have Pixels here in Syria, so Samsung it is.
The latest ui update keeps on crashing my s22 ultra it keeps on turning off my phone stupid update
3:50 nice touch to record when it was 14:00 and you said android 14
I really hate the new quick settings they should have kept it the same
yeah... theyre copying ios again or those chinese brands...
u can use the old one in good lock
@@suvin4842 really? No one has talked about it yet
@@heyykenn9099 yes there is still option just in the theme park
@@heyykenn9099 it will may get removed in module update
I miss the old quick settings pannel ...
On One UI 6, is the Material You wallpaper color accent optional?
"One neat feature you won't find on either the Pixel or the iPhone is the two-handed movement gesture"
I have been using this gesture on iOS for a long long time...
You can also stack apps and use the same gesture to move them at once.
I hope my OnePlus 8T gets Oxygen OS 14. It's due to as it shipped with Android 11.
The two handed movement gesture has been on the iPhone for years?!
Infact its implementation on the iPhone is better as you can select multiple apps at once.
If they only did something with a slide down volume option.
This is font are amazing!!!!
the new font used by Samsung is Samsung Sans, it was installed in your phone in the previous versions but they used Roboto for these 5 years as default
That is not Samsung Sans.
Nope its a new font and i already installed it.
@@faisalislam2615what is the name of the font ?
It’s definitely not Samsung Sans
@@faisalislam2615 What's the name and how did you do it?
I have it. It's just alright.....nothing earth shattering.
Just the number 6, the animation and the icons is the same 😢why did not improve the the UI animation
I’m loving my 15 Pro Max but part of me wishes I went with the S23 Ultra. I was on a OnePlus 9 beforehand.
We just need good social media upload quality
I've just reset my s23 ultra,fir this reason only,the animations.
It's still lag,and sometimes when I'm unlock my phone its lag like the process was put the processor to sleep and have to wake up
I know its impossible but if they give us stock android with samsung camera ,it will be the best selling phone
Wierd someone I live with has one and hasn’t had to reset it at all
I am really interested in what the pixel 8 will bring. If it is better than my s23 plus from a hardware perspective then I would switch instantly
for the normal pixel 8? worse than the s23+ according to a specs leak
It won't be sadly.... I really like how the Pixel 7 and 6 look... 8 is going to be rounded sadly
@@orionarclight i kinda like the rounded look tbh
@@thekitcat_447 ngl same, but even now some Android apps don't blend the gesture bar well into the app... it just annoys me how off it looks, Google maps is an example of using legacy navigation/gesture bar
i still own a70 and consider either changing to s24, pixel 8 or iphone 15 pro
Did anyone knows MIUI has more features?
this is exactly why i love my pixel, it's just simpel and nice
thanks god samsung's keeping up with their elegant-yet-modern approach
everybody's right about the animations tho
One UI 6.0 is good, I like how smooth it feels at 1080p
I really wish I could get something more information dense than One UI 5. One UI 6 is going to waste a lot of the screen space that I payed for on stuff I really don't care about. I don't care about aesthetics. All I care about is first, the OS and the UI will not waste the processing power that I payed for on things like aesthetics. And secondly, that there are no margins unless they are borders between 2 neighboring sections of the screen put there to make navigation easier. I could fit 4 more quick settings in the first page of the quick settings panel... But nope... side margins. I alo feel that bubbly stuff is visually loud. Noisy. I like something cleaner. I do like coloured icons as they make it easier to find what I'm looking for. But I wish I could get rid of the titles below apps on the homescreen to make room for one more row of apps. UIs are just...inefficient. I wish One UI would let me customize margins and icon size and get rid of titles. I buy devices for thier powerful hardware and customizability. Not the UI. I select software based on how useful it is. Not based on any "cool factor".
The Love Club is such a banger
Samsung needs to fix their animations first. The One UI 5.1 is absolutely fine. Animation smoothness is the only area where samsung lags behind Apple and Google. Pixel animations are soooo awesome.
samsung really nailed it this time
Unfortunately for Androids creator, One UI is far better than Pixel lmaoooo
Is it?
@@claudiabailey5302 Absolutely
I wonder if you are revieing OneUI6 Beta or Google Pixel😂😂
Be nice to see dolby vision in phones
You listen to Bastille. Respect 💯
Mehn, Samsung has come a long way. I remembered TouchWiz how terrible that thing was. But oneui is competing for top or second place for Android skins.
Question. How to do downgrade from One UI 6?
I hate that all launcher ultimately try to mimic ios
If I want ios - I'll buy an iPhone
Not only better . It's miles ahead .
Bettter my ass...
I love one ui 6 so much. Its the best ui ever made just allow it to cook and tweak the design up
Your hair is perfect.
Bro voice itself stereo output or shit camera used by XDA team?
From being the most terrible and hated UI (touchwiz) to the most beautiful UI ever implemented with the mix of Pixel & iOS (One UI). I'm excited for the official release on my S23+ .
It's not up to IOS par yet. However I do agree it's come along ways since the days of TouchWiz
@@YeOldeGeezer it's not about trying to BE iOS, it's just the combination of both worlds. Imagine if Pixel and iPhone had a baby. But yeah, iOS animations are dope.
Will be available on the a 54 5g????
Same here !! Using the S23+ with good lock & it makes a hell lot of difference in customisation & usefulness of the OS & device overall…& some new galaxy apps like Galaxy Enhance X is super useful
Tell me why is it like Pixel? wtf! One UI its an iOS copy - paste.
I will always prefer One UI over stock Android.
am i the only one thinking the notificafions in one ui are way too small?
The two handed movement feature is definitely not unique to OneUI. I just did the same thing with my iPhone. Press and hold on an app icon and move the Home Screen behind it to move the app to whichever page you want to. Been able to do that for a while.
iPhone is pretty useless and much too expensive for what it delivers, they cannot even compare to Samsung midrange phos that are a third os the cost
He was clearly talking about unique in respect of Android OEMs
@@franklingoodwin He said it wasn’t something that could be done in the iPhone or Pixel. That’s the only reason I pointed it out. 🤷🏻
@@sergebureau2225 So, you can record ProRes video and high quality audio on a $350 Android phone? You can shoot photos in RAW and you can record 4k60 HDR video on those devices. Also, you can make emergency SOS life saving calls from those devices? I use both Android devices and an iPhone. Before you try to act like iPhones are all overpriced, consider both have unique features and that you can get used iPhones that will have certain of those features at the same price as the midrange Samsung. Both have their pros and cons.
Personally I think Samsung UI peaked during Android 13.
I'm not a fan of the new quick setting panel look. And I think pixel new shade is to cumbersome with less abilities to do stuff
That said I'm intrigued but prefer the previous style
5:23 simply not true. This has been possible on iOS for a while now.
Looking to upgrade from my 4 year old iPhone 11 into the Galaxy S24. But that quick settings panel is definitely a downgrade. That was basically the point of it being called OneUI.
don't worry you can customize it in good lock one ui is the best
There design is all over the place, it seems like they are so busy trying to compete with iOS that they are just randomly changing things to look like that of iOS
i dont trust them anymore. bought a curved glass monitor that broke in 6 months. they expected me to pay to ship it back. then a few months later they bricked my watch with an update and wouldnt do jack.
I owned many Samsung flagships since 2010, the Galaxy S23 lineup is the only Samsung phone that's doesn't lag or stutter.
Note 20 ultra?
@@Abdxlhxsxxb1 note 20 ultra is great, but it's not as smooth as the S23 series.
@@jaydawg3031 been using note 20 ultra since 2021. Till thid day never seen any lag or stutter. It is a pretty solid and decent device! Yeah s23 ultra is better!
If they make the quick settings panel consistent and improve animations to pixel level, it'd be better. But Samsung won't do that
No need to ..
Samsung is better and many things they ve done are copied into new Android OS
More customize option means more bootloader apps. We don't need that.
so dont use it? simple
9:33 fin.
Any new android update that comes out only clicks with google phones, change my mind.
Make Samsung to boot Ubuntu instead of DeX and youll see the change in sales dramaticaly improve. Simple as that. Phones these days are more than capable runing any task you throw at it.
Used to do that with linux on dex. Those were the days...
It is either one ui or no Android for me. Wallet, Samsung Health, dex, and modes and routines on Samsung are a lifesaver for me and I just can't live without them. I also like the 3d design of one ui more than a caricature-like, cartoonish ui of other stock androids and pixels. Before switching from ios I had my reservations and now I don't even look back. I just hope animations get refined a bit and that's about it. It is just the perfect skin on a phone period.
"cartoonish ui of other stock androids and pixels".... when samsung literally has one of the most cartoonish UI and icons.
Are you living in a parallel world?
@@fantasytky28good luck finding a Samsung user that admits that anything from the competition is well done
@@raizo6895 yeah i know. That was why i replied that.
@@raizo6895 I am the samsung user who recognizes the achievements of competitors. Samsung's design is a bit outdated and often looks boring, there are also huge problems with animations. But Samsung's functionality, multitasking and usability are the best, so I like Samsung...
Dex truly is a lifesaver when wirelessly projecting to a Samsung TV and using the phone as a trackpad/keyboard
I cannot stress enough... the entire point of One UI was reachability...
🔖1:55 видимо нельзя просто взять и селать незанятый промежуток от шторки до пола на 100% прозрачным 😔 и шапку снять
Pixel Launcher still beautiful
Btw Apple copied features like hom screen widgets , lockscreen customisation, AOD, etc from samsung
All i want rn is better animations
6:36 this doesnt wokr with my S23U 😂 its not movable lel
I love how he kept comparing these things to "what they have on iOS" when Android has had this stuff for.... well for ever and iPhone is just catching up
I'm sticking to my Pixel, thank you very much.
I hate Googles quick launch area. It looks so old and antiquated, having to do extra clicks to handle things like days of old, instead of the one click modern day One UI 6. And the One UI6 quick launch menu looks better, more modern and useful, besides being more efficient. Why settle for antiquated when you can have cutting edge????