Samsung’s Now Bar is without doubt one of the most engaging options of One UI 7. The pill-shaped interface on the lock display screen and dynamically adjusts primarily based on an important actions in your telephone, very similar to the iPhone’s Dynamic Island. The function, nevertheless, seems to be a bit under-cooked on foldables, particularly Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip sequence telephones, being restricted to solely the inner display screen. Fortunately, Samsung is working to repair this, although the patch could take a while.
The repair supposedly comes not as a part of the prevailing One UI 7 however Samsung’s subsequent platform improve — One UI 8 primarily based on Android 16. An account by the username @Gamer0mega on social media X shared a video preview of Now Bar in motion. As an alternative of the inside display screen, the clip exhibits Now Bar operating on the duvet display screen of a Galaxy Z Flip 6 or Flip 5.
The clip additionally cycles via a number of Now Bar tiles on the duvet display screen and demonstrates launching the music participant. This signifies the video has good possibilities of being legit, although as with virtually the whole lot else we witness on the internet, there’s by no means absolute certainty.
Whereas the watch for One UI 8 could also be lengthy, it’ll doubtless not be so long as different model upgrades. Samsung’s delayed roll out of One UI 7 — and the scathing criticism it has needed to endure whereas fixing bugs within the beta section — has reportedly impressed it to leap instantly from One UI 7 to One UI 8 with out a normal mid-cycle 7.1 replace. So, as a substitute of arriving with the Galaxy S26 sequence subsequent yr, One UI 8 is speculated to return earlier, presumably as early as August 2025.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to count on the firmware improve comes with the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7. However with the dearth of time, Samsung is unlikely to concentrate on bringing many radical modifications to One UI, particularly with aesthetics. One UI 6 and seven have dramatically improved how the interface seems to be, and One UI 8 is predicted to concentrate on an optimized person expertise.
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