As someone who haven't really used a Samsung phone, can I ask which one of these changes do you think are significant improvements?
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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As someone who's been a Stock Android fanboy and got his first Samsung in over a decade, the only significant change for me is:
Keep pop-up windows open – Instead of minimizing pop-up windows when you go to the Recents screen, pop-ups will now remain open after you leave the Recents screen so you can continue what you were working on.
Fuck popup windows completely though. Give me a full screen window or show me nothing. This isn't a desktop I want an app to use my full screen
Password managers work perfectly well in popups. Calendars, stickies/notes, and other scensrios where the app isnt your focus but you need the utility of that app within another app.
In addition to what the other person wrote - popup windows are very useful on large screen devices like foldables and tablets. I'm on Fold 4 and the popup windows have been great for multitasking, like keeping an eye on a chat (or how far away your Uber Eats is) whilst you're doing something else in full-screen. Using a Fold is more akin to using a desktop, so multitasking features like this is much appreciated by folks like me.
I like pop-up windows. Especially on my fold but I also enjoyed them on the Ultra just not as much
Pulling down from top right corner to show the full quick actions menu. Now I need to swipe down twice to see all options, with this update only once. I will actually install the beta solely for this feature.
There is 2 finger pull down option available right now with v13. No idea if it is default behavior or a setting since cannot find one.
So dumb though, who actually uses that? And I'll ask again until eternity: 
why do these tiles need to be so large?
Quick tiles is one of the many reasons why I prefer Samsung One UI over stock/Pixel. One UI still uses the old style.
To take real estate from notifications (is it somehow a benefit to Google to add scroll interactions?). I'm not sure what the endgame is but the only other thing it achieves is making them always trigger when you're holding the phone to your ear, which no matter how tinfoil I get I can't see any potential motivator for that. It's pure bad design, for the life of me I can't work it out.
There's always the under-the-hood changes from Android upstream, and Samsung keeps adding customization options every update. Without rooting or 3rd party apps*, no other OEM comes close to OneUI's customizability. For me, that's a huge plus.
*I meant specifically 3rd party apps, because Samsung has the Good Lock suite of apps, which needs to be installed from the store. They work somewhat as a beta testing of features or advanced controls for existing features, and many of the features are added to new updates, for instance, the quick settings easy access up to One UI 5.1 (Android 13) is only available via Good Lock's Quick Star module, but seems to be built-in on One UI 6 (Android 14)
The “Quick Panel” [...] in terms of the look, it’s a pretty shameless copy of iOS’ Control Center
What is the penchant for these journalists to say everything looks/is copied from Apple? The quick settings menu looks nothing like iOS control center, unless they're talking about both having buttons and a blurred background. Also I believe Samsung's design is older than Apple's, at least first iterations of it.
I think this solely refers to the "containers on a blurred background" style. They both do look somewhat similar (but not really identical).
How do you get your Samsung phone to update. Mine says it is up-to-date and it's running 13.
Android 14 isn't out yet, those are beta screenshots. One UI 6 stable probably comes out in December.
And most likely only the S23 series. Everything else will be a good bit later.
- You need S23 series phone AND need to be in one of the specific regions. More phones will be added later.
- Use Samsung Members app to opt in to beta
- Do a software update like how you normally would. https://developer.samsung.com/one-ui-beta
You also need to check that your phone will get more updates and it hasn't reached its update quota. In that case getting the newer updates became trickier.
Update quota? I am seriously regretting samsung instead of pixel.
Yeah I was surprised too. I was hearing a lot of people talk about the new design thing that came with Android 13 and I got confused as I hadn't seen it, I looked into it and it apparently came with 13. So I was wondering why I had not gotten a chance to update, as 13 was apparently all ready out.
The reason turned out to be that my s10 had gotten all of its allocated updates and would not be receiving 13.
Damn I don't think Pixel phones even have 14 yet. How'd they get it out so early? Samsung used to always take months to catch up on updates.
No way bro got emoji as username 💀. Didn't even know that was allowed.
Just go to your settings and you can change your display name up whatever the fuck, and it allows emojis lol. My account name is just set to mojo and is regular
I hope they fix the bug where detailed notifications don't work.