06-05-2025 12:16 PM
Can we get smart select back it was really nice to have a feature where i could go to image grab the part of it i wanted and crop the background out. Now with ai select there is no way to grab something with out the ai messing up the one part of the image I wanted. At least add an option I'd you wanna generate or just save the image.
06-05-2025 12:34 PM
06-05-2025 01:49 PM - last edited 06-05-2025 01:57 PM
06-05-2025 03:43 PM - last edited 06-05-2025 03:46 PM
But you have options to save smart select (ai select), with or without generate edit
You can, write, pin, copy, share and save-its same as before
06-05-2025 11:14 PM
You use to be able too you can still micro crop yes but before this update you use to able to just grab a single part of a image and remove the rest of the background.
06-05-2025 11:15 PM
Yes that's how you do a easy crop but it doesn't allow you to say just pull the eye's iris out like it use to with out the ai ruining it
16-05-2025 08:06 PM
I just upgraded to a newer Galaxy phone. It's an ultra model with the s pen. I specifically use the smart select feature on a regular basis. I think it is absolutely horrible what they've done to it. What are they thinking? My only guess is that they are trying to get rid of S-Pen lovers like ourselves.
28-05-2025 11:14 PM
Well ,hey boss, love this well that's the way it is and that's all there is to it reply be sure to forward up the chain that the Ai feature doesn't work as well as the smart select feature that used to be there , it actually requires more work and doesn't always know what you want. It worked fine before now it doesn't work fine and it's really annoying . At least provide customers with an option to switch it off and revert back to the normal version instead of making them choke on more and more AI features . Windows media and all other photo editing apps have a crop feature and it works just fine and hasn't been changed since the beginning of time , I don't need AI to tell me or help me decide what I'd like to crop out of a page ! I wish samsung would stop kowtowing to google and its vision for our future and paying attention to practicality of design . The google messaging app that was installed on my galaxy was the main reason I switched from google pixel to to galaxy in the first place . It was awful, it had a bug where by if yiu sent a photo with text attached the message would fail . To my disbelief it was on my 24 ultra when I booted it up for the first time . Thank goodness the samsung app was buried in the phone was still existent and could be switched to default , its a way better app than Google's. So , be sure to pass my 'feedback' to those at samsung who might be able to do something positive and realistic about design features. Not everyone in this world wants to embrace AI . Lots of people STILL want to have some amount of control in their lives to make decisions for themselves without it .
28-05-2025 11:20 PM
I completely agree with you . I just posted a large rant on this thread to a.moderator . The smart select feature worked great and everyone is trying to justify how well and versatile the AI works . The FACT is it doesn't work as well because it thinks for itself and teyies to predict what yihr thinking . And for that reason it actually doesn't work as well as it did previously. Once the square appears on the screen its fixed you can't resize it easily or ANYTHING . It's getting to the point where the effort verses reward equation regarding the power of Samsung's s pen compatible devices is becoming unbalanced . I've been scouring the net for an alternative and as soon as any of the big Chinese brands come out with one that's close, I'm out of here .
28-05-2025 11:21 PM
Totally with you