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Updated to OneUI 7 by accident now I want to complain

(Topic created on: 13-06-2025 09:23 AM)
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I'm not one to rush into new updates as soon as they're out. I'd always wait and see the feedback from users. Based on that and other available information, I had decided to not update to OneUI 7. My mistake is I did download the update so all that was left was to press update.

Samsung's mistake, or perhaps not a mistake at all, is very intrusively popping the update screen on top of whatever one might be doing currently.. and just like that while typing a text, the update screen comes up half a millisecond before I put my right thumb down on a letter that happens to be right where the UPDATE NOW or whatever button is on the update page. I barely even saw the window. There was no time for the brain to react. No secondary confirmation was required and so now I have the OneUI 7...

Now I have to complain...

See,
oneUI 6.1 had a very good android-ish design.
oneUI 7 has a very iphone-ish design.
However, when I paid £1.2k+ or whatever for a phone, I'm pretty sure it had the name SAMSUNG on it and that it was running ANDROID on it so what the heck am I even looking at now?

This whole iphonisation of Android by Samsung and other makers is something that doesn't make sense if one were to think about it - people who are into iPhone design and everything, do not make the whole market. There is a significant portion of the market who would much rather have android remaining looking as android and even from a pure business perspective, deliberately refusing to cater to that just makes no sense.

The worst part isn't copy pasting the iphone design - the worst part is copying their philosophy which is that the user should always have the option to change ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... And whilst one can change some things, OneUI 7 is certainly on the wrong trajectory here because there are many things one can't change.

I can't change the battery icon to the old one

I can't change notification size (they're oversized now because iphone yo)

I can't change the number of notifications on the lock screen.

I can't change the fact that I now have to swipe not twice but 3 times to see all the buttons in the drop down notification menu (yes, I use the split version because in case it hasn't yet become obvious, I prefer the android way, that's why I bought an android phone)

I can't change the fact they decided volume control should be a bar in the drop down notification menu. I don't need it to be a bar. I'll LITERALLY never go thinking oh wait sound is too loud, let me SWIPE DOWN TWICE and change that instead of just using the physical buttons LMAO

I also can't change the fact that important icons are only shown after swiping down, like Bluetooth, volume, alarm, etc... I wonder if my headphones are connected... LET ME SWIPE DOWN AND CHECK.

I'll stop here not because I run out of things they broke but because it's tiring.

There is literally not one thing I'd look at this update and think hmm, I kinda like that. Not... one... thing.
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MikeJ37
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Yes and not enough options on home screen grid layout
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Tourbillon De La Vie
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Goodlock and Home up 

Glenntech
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I use my S25 Ultra alongside an iPhone 16 Pro Max and frankly I can't really see the comparison.

There's so much you can change on a Samsung phone.
Don't like the split swipe down
Then swipe down from the right
Tap the pen symbol
Tap panel settings and select together
Done

You have Samsung Goodlock app with its various plugins
Great fun customising the phone.
Icon packs etc

You can change the power button from activating Gemini back to power off very easily as well

There are Android operating system changes that have happened
But you'd have to complain to Google about those
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Every issue I've listed has no workaround. I've seen this topic and similar ones.

Kinda wonder what's the point of commenting if your comment will only show you didn't really read the post in the first place.
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I've literally said nothing about the power button. Your whole reply makes no sense in the context of my post. Do you people even read a post before commenting on it?
Glenntech
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The power button is a popular one to complain about.
Just pointing out that you can do so much with a Samsung phone.

Your comparison to iPhone, really I don't see the resemblance
They both look and work differently
Joeeye
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I don't use iPhones but since so many people obsessed about how OneUI 7 is so much like an iPhone, I gotta admit, OneUI was already like it in the first place if this is true. The changes in OneUI 7 were so minor to me, I can barely tell the difference from before. It's great people like yourself are here to remind me of things I didn't even notice changed and how iPhone like they are.
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Sonora
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The iPhone doesn't have this. Only Samsung can set entire phone functions on edge of the phone 😂

One hand operation +

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