Samsung One UI: Top features that make it new, beautiful and different

UI Changes

UI Comparison between Night and Regular Mode

Samsung devices are famous for their unique and bigger screen sizes, that's why it may not be easier to throw your thumb across the screen while operating your device with one hand. To solve this problem, Samsung brought a huge change with One UI which helps to make user reach out on-screen content without overstretching their fingers (One Handed operation). To add more compatibility, some menus include items tabs, placed at the bottom of the display instead of the top.

Although it may seem that this a waste of space because the new menu design occupies more than 30% space from the top to show you a single word like "Settings", "Messages" and others but to make it work, it simply pushes the interactive content below the occupied space to allow users to easily catch the first menu option and as user scroll to the bottom its automatically collapses to a regular status bar.

One Handed Navigation

Samsung's navigation bar contains three buttons including 'Back', 'Home' and 'Recent' actions that can be reorganized in order and now with Android Pie update, users can also use "Navigation Gestures" which replaces on-screen navigation buttons, providing a full-screen view for a better viewing experience.

Navigation Bar Types

One UI users can awake their device by simply lifting their device up from its idle position. This new feature works on sensors which are based on the accelerometer or gyroscope and when a user lift their phone and tilt it upwards from the top in the Z-axis it automatically triggers the phone to awake the lock screen.