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C. Scott Brown \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
One UI has been with us for six years now, and it\u2019s easily the best Android skin Samsung has made. One UI<\/a> is smoother, more reliable, and easier to use than Samsung Experience or TouchWiz, the skins that preceded it. Aside from a blip with One UI 7<\/a>, it\u2019s been updated quicker than ever, often beating other Android skins.<\/p>\n The features One UI delivers have made it my favorite flavor of Android since I first used it on my Galaxy S10 Plus, but there are still things I\u2019d like to change. Motorola, OnePlus, and others have added exciting features to their Android skins, and I\u2019d love to see some of them adopted by Samsung in the next version of One UI.<\/p>\n Which of these featurs would you like to see most on Samsung phones?<\/p>\n 24 votes<\/p>\n Moto: Gestures<\/p>\n 25%<\/p>\n Moto: Easier customisation<\/p>\n 17%<\/p>\n Pixel: Now Playing<\/p>\n 8%<\/p>\n Pixel: Call Screening<\/p>\n 13%<\/p>\n OnePlus: Screenshot pixelation<\/p>\n 13%<\/p>\n OnePlus: Open Canvas<\/p>\n 25%<\/p>\n Motorola: Intuitive gestures\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been twelve years since the original Moto X hit shelves. That phone, along with the Moto G, shaped Motorola\u2019s future over the following decade, and one of the best things it introduced is what the company now calls Kinetic Gestures. The ones I want most are the two that started it all \u2014 Fast Torch and Quick Capture.<\/p>\n On a Motorola phone, performing a double karate chop toggles the torch on or off, something that\u2019s incredibly useful when you\u2019re fumbling with keys in the dark and need to add some light to the situation. I use this a lot on my 2023 Razr Plus, where this gesture is much faster than unlocking the phone and swiping through quick settings.<\/p>\n Quick Capture opens the camera or switches between the front and rear lenses if the camera is already open. This gesture requires a double flick of the wrist, and once you get used to it, it\u2019s the easiest way of quickly launching the camera so you don\u2019t miss an important shot.<\/p>\n Motorola: Easy customisation\n<\/p>\n One UI has plenty of theming options, more than Motorola does, but it\u2019s all split across too many different menus and apps. Theming icons is in Theme Park, fonts are in the settings menu, and the Material You colors are in a menu accessed from the home screen. It\u2019s even worse on Samsung\u2019s Z Flip series, where all of the options for the cover screen are spread across even more menus. It adds too much friction to customising your Samsung phone.<\/p>\n Motorola has gone about things in a simple, thoughtful way. All of the options for themes, icons, fonts, home screen grid sizes, and the cover screen are in a single place. Long-press the home screen, open the personalise menu, and there are all of the options you could ever need. Sure, I miss some of the more advanced tweaks from One UI, but Motorola\u2019s approach of listing everything together is more approachable for users.<\/p>\n Pixel: Now Playing<\/p>\n Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n Now Playing is one of those small features that you don\u2019t think about until you use a phone that doesn\u2019t have it. I used a Pixel 9 Pro<\/a> as my daily phone recently, the longest I\u2019d used a Pixel since I owned a 3XL, and it reminded me how many subtle quality of life features you get on Pixels. Knowing what song is playing in the background wherever I am, without having to ask my phone to do it, is more convenient than the alternative.<\/p>\n The Now Playing history is great, too. I\u2019ve planned to listen to a song that I\u2019ve heard and searched for when out and about, only to forget what the song was by the time I get home. Now Playing keeps a history of the songs it hears, so I don\u2019t have to rely on my memory.<\/p>\n Pixel: Call Screening<\/p>\n Andy Walker \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n Pixel 8a<\/p>\n Call Screening debuted on the Pixel 3 in 2018, but I never got to experience it as it didn\u2019t come to the UK until 2021. When I used it with the Pixel 9 Pro<\/a> recently, I couldn\u2019t believe how much better it is than Samsung\u2019s alternative. Samsung\u2019s Call Assist can do the basics of screening calls, transcribing the conversation, and live translation. But it\u2019s the extras that Google has added to Call Screening over the years that Samsung can\u2019t keep up with.<\/p>\n Call Screening on Pixels can wait on hold for you and notify you when the person you\u2019re calling comes back, tell you how long the average wait time is for a call to a business, and even map and label phone tree options. Samsung is off to a good start with Call Assist, but there\u2019s a lot more work to be done.<\/p>\n OnePlus: Screenshot pixelation<\/p>\n Zac Kew-Denniss \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n I take a lot of screenshots in this line of work, and I often need to censor things like my email, address, and other personal information. One UI does have a blur and pixelation tool in the gallery, but it\u2019s a manual process that can be quite messy if you don\u2019t have an S Pen to make things easier. OnePlus and Oppo devices have an AI-powered auto mode that applies a neat blur to what it identifies as sensitive information.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t perfect. In the example above, I had to censor two elements that it missed manually, but that was much less painful than having to do the whole thing myself, and features like this will only improve with updates.<\/p>\n OnePlus: Open Canvas\n<\/p>\n OnePlus debuted Open Canvas<\/a> on the OnePlus Open, and since then, it\u2019s come to many of the company\u2019s devices. It\u2019s a new approach to window management on mobile that is more intuitive and makes the most use out of the space available on a screen. Before OnePlus introduced this, One UI had my favorite multitasking system, but Open Canvas blows it out of the water.<\/p>\n Google has taken some inspiration from Open Canvas, adding a 90:10 split to multi-window that you can try in One UI 8 on the Fold 7<\/a>, Flip 7<\/a>, Flip FE, and the S25 series running the beta. It\u2019s an improvement, but still doesn\u2019t come close to what OnePlus is doing, and I\u2019d love to try Open Canvas on a big screen, like my Galaxy Tab S10 Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n One UI 9 needs to impress<\/p>\n Zac Kew-Denniss \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n![\"Moto](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Moto-actions-1-scaled.jpg\"\/ "\\"Moto")
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