One Ui 7 Review, Final Opinions. (Beta Ver)

[AFS-Reviews]

I have been using Beta One Ui 7 For three days and I feel I should make my final opinions on the Ui, since I have taken a look at everything, of course, I'll still report issues I come across.

Battery

One thing I noticed when installing the update is that my battery seems to be put under a fair amount of stress, it has dropped by atleast 30m/1hr since the update which is fairly severe, I would reckon the next phone with one Ui 7 needs at least maybe 7000 mAh, or the Ui gets made more efficient for the battery as time goes along.

Ui

The greatest parts I have enjoyed so far is the overall feel of using the Ui alone, it feels so smooth and tidy, and easier to the user, the finder now being at the bottom so I no longer need to move my hands farther up, and the widgets being more clearer and mess free, though one small idea would be that the now bar doesn't really have much other functions, I think it would be pretty nice to see a way to make the now bar a button also when it isn't having to show music or timers as such, perhaps maybe allowing it to be a third button like the other two beside it on the lock screen. just for that added feature to have one more use, and the Always On Displays auto mode is kind of buggy.

Camera App

Wow, has the camera app had a overhaul in terms of design. The app is so much easier to navigate while recording, all the buttons are now below meaning my footage won't be shaky when trying to reach the top whilst recording. And I love that I can now zoom slower with the Zoom bar, though I wished it was in normal video mode and not just in the Pro version.

Overall

The One Ui, is definitely an upgrade that's for sure, with so many new features, designs, and more. And I cannot deny that I think this is the best one yet, I'm glad to see samsung growing better in both hardware, and software design, and that's why I use Samsung. But I'm sure there's still alot more to come with One Ui 8, maybe a teaser to some fixes like battery efficency, or more Ai Features, who knows?

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I appreciate the Samsung community and I am going to leave this Beta test, since I'm upgrading to S25U, thanks for helping me with the wifi problems and cache, goodbye.

[jamesefc1991]

When will this update be available for the s23

[Members_IOpDvYm]

They made a change for the sake of change!

I cannot access my apps in a way that I did. So many useless changes. 

I could not reach my missed calls and mails from notification panel. Now I see there is invisible option a little left or a little right, which I had to set up.

No transparency any more on a widget. 

No Recently used applications from the top left. 

Battery percentage js bigger number without the % sign. Looking childish and nonprofessional.

The time was in strange format like datum, hour and under it minutes, instead of HH:mm 

[Luca336]

Ugly, childish. Garbage should be optional. Ugly battery, missing Bluetooth icon. Notification panel confusing and ugly. Not a single thing I've liked about this update. Leave things the way they were.

[Laura2225]

it's absolutely horribly pointless and is a money grabbing fake efficiency and faster battery draining 'update'. shi I don't even want to use my phone at this rate, its so infuriating. 

it was even a hassle to just find where to post this review! it's almost as if they don't want to hear from the community about their f ups!

I'm a big photographer. they f-ed the camera.

the swipe down notif panel is nonexistent for needed buttons. no wifi? sound notif toggle, no Bluetooth. no brightness. no volume control. they stole that whole bar. I have to go all the way into Mt setting right now to even adjust brightness which means I may be probably uncomfortably staring at a very bright screen, or unable to see but knowing where to put my fingers to adjust it. why is the search bar on the bottom? where is the settings button? they rearranged all the apps so now there's double the pages with half a page of apps. that can be adjusted but don't f with my preexisting settings of ANYTHING. you know how frustrating it is to re configure your phone? with whole new settings to even find how to do that or they removed the ability to do it entirely? 

I don't even know what else is wrong. i hate this. 

and AI is a joke. Gemini?

I want to use Google assistant but guess what? it won't work now even if i switch to it  🫠though I know gemini isn't the only tech stealing my info. happens all the time. thanks govt and technology. 

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[Luca336]

I know it's been terrible. But just incase you haven't fixed this in settings what they've done is made the swipe down panel split. Meaning pull it down from the left side and you'll see notifications and pulling from the right will show all the buttons you were talking about (could be the other way around I can't remember cause I changed it back to how it was the day the update came). So basically go to your home screen and pull the notification bar down from the side with the time on, then swipe back up and now pull it down from the battery icon side. I know, it's annoying, but just incase you're still going into settings to change brightness and stuff. They should've just kept it the way it was