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Just got the new UI update and it has made Smart Select completely useless now.

(Topic created on: 03-05-2025 03:31 PM)
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TT_PLEB
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I used to use smart select all the time for quickly and easily sending pre-cropped screenshots either using the edge panel shortcut or the double tap s-pen shortcut. But since it's now been turned into "AI Select" it's basically useless. 

It now takes longer to use because of the stupid sparkle animation they've added and waiting to initialise the AI (that I'll never bloody use) than to just take a full-screen screenshot and then crop it.

Please, for the live of God samsung, let us turn off the AI or have AI select and Smart select as 2 separate things on the phone.
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ensh-tification
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I'm right there with you my dude. Thank you for getting as far as you have with this thread, it at least showed me I'm not alone. It used to be such a great feature and a feather in Samsung's cap, but now I never use it anymore because of the 5-10 second delay before I can interact with anything, such absolute and unnecessary ensh-tification!

 

How you lasted as long as you have in responding to people in this thread is beyond me haha. Idk if it's willful ignorance, stupidity, a language barrier, or dead internet theory, but reading this thread was like watching someone politely argue with a chatbot that's programmed to misunderstand.

 

All I know is, with Samsung's forcing their AI into everything like this (I don't want to use Android's native Gemini, let alone Samsung's half-baked AI hogging resources on top of that), I'm planning on dropping them, after ~15 years, and going with something I can root again. They were finally giving up on, and phasing out Bixby, just beforr LLMs got big! But instead, they saw the new crazy and didn't want to miss out on an excuse to access ALL our tasty, so they thought "let's put a hat on a hat and get our own LLM on top of Gemini, in ways that renders core features of our ecosystem unpalatable to interact with, people will love that!"

 

Anyway, sorry for the rant, just so darn frustrating to me.

 

You are not alone.

JillyCdmb
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Came here to FIGURE THIS OUT! BRING BACK SMART SELECT. I understand humans are inherently reluctant to change but this is completely removing a feature and replacing it with a feature that doesn't work as or better than smart select. Period! It's like saying I know you ordered a salad but on our updated menu there's a loaded bacon cheeseburger, but there's a piece of lettuce on it! 

So there's my 25 cents, not 2.

Thank you for not fixing this, because I know nothing will be done.                       

WHY is it that every update brings more frustration? Bixby was useless i hated it coming up if I pressed the side buttons. Gemini? Can't we just say hey Google? 😄 :-)~

Also my screen on my S23Ultra is now crooked. I have to move my screen or pinch it smaller which is usually not possible. "But it is now! Because your screen's crooked"

Bring back smart select! I used it every day!

✌️ 

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