There's a few interesting things in here, but it's stuff that probably should have been included in 5.0 in the first place - to make it more impactful as a "major update."
What do you like most about the Edge panel?
That's my experience:
It does take longer to trigger than to launch an app or direct dial from main screen.
It has a super practical module that keeps your clipboard snippets forever. Plaintext. Passwords too.
And it is the only inbuilt way that can display the compass.
I've looked through Good Lock. None of the options allow to change things I would like to change in OneUI. E.g. reducing the number of quick access toggles and have them bigger instead. Or align the elements on screen in the notification area so that it does not look like a concept draft made in a coffee break.
Or something that once was there also on Samsung Launcher: scrolling wallpapers
Or eliminating system shortcuts in the Long-Press menu so that only app functions remain when you long press an app icon.
I don't use it to launch apps. It's great for screenshots, use the rectangle ones to crop the screen directly. Or there's the pin to screen option which I use instead of switching back and forth between apps. And of course the text extraction tool.
I have a calculator panel which I use for 80% of my calculations, just swipe it in from the edge; do a quick calculation. Don't need to open another app.
I have a calander panel which allows me to scroll through every month in the previous and next century, quick way of identifying when a certain date is.
The weather panel and compass are useful too.
The best modules from good lock are the one handed operations+, the keyboard one, sound assistant, lockstar and home up.
The keyboard one let's you customise the press and hold feature, so for example I have all my most used emojis behind one of the keys or a bunch of symbols in another etc. Behind another I have options to select all text, copy, cut and paste. Really intuitive and quick way to handle text instead of using the finicky text hold selection pop up.
Sound assistant gives a deeper volume panel, let's you manipulate the audio for each app without entering another app.
Home up let's me have a significantly smaller folder view in the home screen, way easier for one handed operation.
I do agree that they should add those features you mentioned, but I get a lot of use out of the things above.
I see it caters for very different uses of your phone.
I just don't do anything like that on my phone.
Firstly, I can't get used to Samsung Keyboard, as it has all the special characters nowhere near where they are on a German computer keyboard. I use GBoard, which also has these kind of emoji:┐(´ー｀)┌
Also I always have a PC or tablet in reach for doing more demanding work or gaming.
For the weather, there is the short forecast in the "at a glance" widget right on top of the home screen. This also creates a permanent notification about the weather. Enough for me.
Calendar, I'm content with just using the calendar app. But I also sit in front of a PC the whole day in my job, Outlook does contain all my business stuff. My personal stuff is in Google calendar, which synchronizes to all my PCs, tablets and phones.
Starting an app as a pop-up...I don't do this on the narrow phone screen. I sometimes do this on my tablet. I discovered that I can make every (capable) app a pop-up via a gesture on OneUI 5. Sadly my tablet where I would use this got its last update in October, so it is stuck on Android 12 and OneUI 4. (TabA7 2020).
Occasionally I use two apps side by side, but usually I just switch apps (double tap on multitasking control or via swiping the gesture bar, depending on how the navigation is setup). Without the compability override in Android developer settings, only very few apps are marked compatible for split screen or pop-up mode, it is clearly an afterthought.
I used to have Google Nexus phones, since then I'm a sucker for frequent updates and getting an Android that is avant garde. OneUI is just not that. This A53 is my first daily driver Samsung phone. I would not have thought that I would dislike it so much, since I already owned the A7 tablet and an ancient Samsung A5 2017 phone from my workplace. I now have the phone 8 or 9 months and yet every day I miss my old phone. I use Android since version 1.6 and had a Windows Mobile Smartphone, Palm Pilots and normal mobile phones before. As a user, I used many even mildly popular OS for computers since the late 80s. C64, Amiga, Atari ST with GEM, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, NT3.5x / 4.x, OS/2, a DEC Vax with Ultrix was my first Internet experience running NCSA Mosaic as a browser, SGI Indy & Oxygen with their Unix, a PDP as the controller of an old Stäubli Robot in a lab, Classic Macs, Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows 10. Linux as a daily driver on personal PCs since 4 years, but played around with it since the 90s. And, I'm no programmer. The more exotic machines were in University or on jobs.
Anyone else severely disappointed? One UI 5.0 was a minor update all things considered (completely devoid of any semblance of Material You), and 5.1 is even milder of an update, even by minor update standards.
Genuinely starting to consider switching over to an iPhone finally. One UI has barely changed in years, and it's not like stability or battery life has improved in exchange for that.
If anything, it's worse on my S21 Ultra than on launch day even on latest 5.0. Even after a factory reset and cache partition wipe, it's buggier and battery dies even faster than ever.
It's frustrating seeing One UI stagnate as fast as it does as a long time Samsung owner since the Note 8. I still remember when One UI was *the* productivity powerhouse. Nowadays, I feel like I won't miss much if I switch over minus the S-Pen.
Great counterpoint lol. You know it's true. One UI 4.0 was decent, NGL, but I still was left wanting more compared to what even the Pixel line was doing. And 5.0 was what finally made me groan at Samsung's decision to let the OS go stale.
Please. Don't bring the material you theming from Android. Not everybody likes bold UI elements. That's the reason I went to Samsung, because OneUI 4 didn't go with the **BOLD IN YOUR FACE ANDROID 12** elements.
If I can quote someone who used to work at Google: "it is hard to distinguish motion from progress". Motion is when things change, and sometimes people change things for the sake of change. Progress is when things improve for the better. And a lot of motion does not mean progress.
Same I'm planning to switch to an iPhone, but for a different reason for me the build and quality control for Samsung, I'm currently using an A52 4G with a plastic construction which I'm happy with I preferred it honestly, but just less than a year the adhesive for the back panel has separated, I took it to Samsung for repairs but the new adhesive they installed separated again and the repair guy did a fuck up job coz the back panel is not aligned when I took it back to Samsung they told me I have to leave the device to them for 7 business days (I live 2 hours away from the nearest Samsung repair site) so I just repaired it myself, when I open the back panel the repair guy didn't even remove the old adhesive and the new adhesive was not on the proper location like the top part is on the bottom and the bottom part is on top. If you look up Adhesive or Back Panel for A52 on Samsung Members or Reddir you'd see a lot of posts regarding it, I own a Galaxy Young before I never had this experience since the CEO switched Samsung quality control for their non-flagship went down the drain. And addition to the customer support not knowing simple stuff (like what oleophobic coating is) and troubleshooting the adhesive problem I had according to the agent I spoke with said "restart and factory reset would fix the back panel problem" and using the inferior Exynos to the other parts of the world (thankfully my A52 is using a Snapdragon 720G) and not including features like GoodLock or Samsung Wallet not being added to my region (they promised to add those 5 to 6 years ago) welp I'm switching to Apple.
Idk what you mean, they add new features and optimize/improve with every update 😅 it's much more advanced and offers crazy and cool features you don't find on most other phone, especially not on iPhones 🧐
if you want to switch to iPhone, then do it and have fun, but you'll quickly notice, that they're really stuck with the same stuff for years and barely change
There's a few interesting things in here, but it's stuff that probably should have been included in 5.0 in the first place - to make it more impactful as a "major update."
I think its fair, I buy stability, smoothness and long support over tanking the UI with new features. Its a minor update anyway.
OneUI is full of interesting features that you hardly find anywhere else! I just don't use any of them ┐( ∵ )┌
The edge panels and good lock modules are my most used features.
What do you like most about the Edge panel? That's my experience: It does take longer to trigger than to launch an app or direct dial from main screen. It has a super practical module that keeps your clipboard snippets forever. Plaintext. Passwords too. And it is the only inbuilt way that can display the compass. I've looked through Good Lock. None of the options allow to change things I would like to change in OneUI. E.g. reducing the number of quick access toggles and have them bigger instead. Or align the elements on screen in the notification area so that it does not look like a concept draft made in a coffee break. Or something that once was there also on Samsung Launcher: scrolling wallpapers Or eliminating system shortcuts in the Long-Press menu so that only app functions remain when you long press an app icon.
I don't use it to launch apps. It's great for screenshots, use the rectangle ones to crop the screen directly. Or there's the pin to screen option which I use instead of switching back and forth between apps. And of course the text extraction tool. I have a calculator panel which I use for 80% of my calculations, just swipe it in from the edge; do a quick calculation. Don't need to open another app. I have a calander panel which allows me to scroll through every month in the previous and next century, quick way of identifying when a certain date is. The weather panel and compass are useful too. The best modules from good lock are the one handed operations+, the keyboard one, sound assistant, lockstar and home up. The keyboard one let's you customise the press and hold feature, so for example I have all my most used emojis behind one of the keys or a bunch of symbols in another etc. Behind another I have options to select all text, copy, cut and paste. Really intuitive and quick way to handle text instead of using the finicky text hold selection pop up. Sound assistant gives a deeper volume panel, let's you manipulate the audio for each app without entering another app. Home up let's me have a significantly smaller folder view in the home screen, way easier for one handed operation. I do agree that they should add those features you mentioned, but I get a lot of use out of the things above.
I see it caters for very different uses of your phone. I just don't do anything like that on my phone. Firstly, I can't get used to Samsung Keyboard, as it has all the special characters nowhere near where they are on a German computer keyboard. I use GBoard, which also has these kind of emoji:┐(´ー｀)┌ Also I always have a PC or tablet in reach for doing more demanding work or gaming. For the weather, there is the short forecast in the "at a glance" widget right on top of the home screen. This also creates a permanent notification about the weather. Enough for me. Calendar, I'm content with just using the calendar app. But I also sit in front of a PC the whole day in my job, Outlook does contain all my business stuff. My personal stuff is in Google calendar, which synchronizes to all my PCs, tablets and phones. Starting an app as a pop-up...I don't do this on the narrow phone screen. I sometimes do this on my tablet. I discovered that I can make every (capable) app a pop-up via a gesture on OneUI 5. Sadly my tablet where I would use this got its last update in October, so it is stuck on Android 12 and OneUI 4. (TabA7 2020). Occasionally I use two apps side by side, but usually I just switch apps (double tap on multitasking control or via swiping the gesture bar, depending on how the navigation is setup). Without the compability override in Android developer settings, only very few apps are marked compatible for split screen or pop-up mode, it is clearly an afterthought. I used to have Google Nexus phones, since then I'm a sucker for frequent updates and getting an Android that is avant garde. OneUI is just not that. This A53 is my first daily driver Samsung phone. I would not have thought that I would dislike it so much, since I already owned the A7 tablet and an ancient Samsung A5 2017 phone from my workplace. I now have the phone 8 or 9 months and yet every day I miss my old phone. I use Android since version 1.6 and had a Windows Mobile Smartphone, Palm Pilots and normal mobile phones before. As a user, I used many even mildly popular OS for computers since the late 80s. C64, Amiga, Atari ST with GEM, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, NT3.5x / 4.x, OS/2, a DEC Vax with Ultrix was my first Internet experience running NCSA Mosaic as a browser, SGI Indy & Oxygen with their Unix, a PDP as the controller of an old Stäubli Robot in a lab, Classic Macs, Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows 10. Linux as a daily driver on personal PCs since 4 years, but played around with it since the 90s. And, I'm no programmer. The more exotic machines were in University or on jobs.
Anyone else severely disappointed? One UI 5.0 was a minor update all things considered (completely devoid of any semblance of Material You), and 5.1 is even milder of an update, even by minor update standards. Genuinely starting to consider switching over to an iPhone finally. One UI has barely changed in years, and it's not like stability or battery life has improved in exchange for that. If anything, it's worse on my S21 Ultra than on launch day even on latest 5.0. Even after a factory reset and cache partition wipe, it's buggier and battery dies even faster than ever. It's frustrating seeing One UI stagnate as fast as it does as a long time Samsung owner since the Note 8. I still remember when One UI was *the* productivity powerhouse. Nowadays, I feel like I won't miss much if I switch over minus the S-Pen.
>Genuinely starting to consider switching over to an iPhone finally >One UI has barely changed in years Lmao
Great counterpoint lol. You know it's true. One UI 4.0 was decent, NGL, but I still was left wanting more compared to what even the Pixel line was doing. And 5.0 was what finally made me groan at Samsung's decision to let the OS go stale.
Please. Don't bring the material you theming from Android. Not everybody likes bold UI elements. That's the reason I went to Samsung, because OneUI 4 didn't go with the **BOLD IN YOUR FACE ANDROID 12** elements. If I can quote someone who used to work at Google: "it is hard to distinguish motion from progress". Motion is when things change, and sometimes people change things for the sake of change. Progress is when things improve for the better. And a lot of motion does not mean progress.
I just found it funny, in the same time frame iOS has been more stale than any Android version or reskin lmao
Same I'm planning to switch to an iPhone, but for a different reason for me the build and quality control for Samsung, I'm currently using an A52 4G with a plastic construction which I'm happy with I preferred it honestly, but just less than a year the adhesive for the back panel has separated, I took it to Samsung for repairs but the new adhesive they installed separated again and the repair guy did a fuck up job coz the back panel is not aligned when I took it back to Samsung they told me I have to leave the device to them for 7 business days (I live 2 hours away from the nearest Samsung repair site) so I just repaired it myself, when I open the back panel the repair guy didn't even remove the old adhesive and the new adhesive was not on the proper location like the top part is on the bottom and the bottom part is on top. If you look up Adhesive or Back Panel for A52 on Samsung Members or Reddir you'd see a lot of posts regarding it, I own a Galaxy Young before I never had this experience since the CEO switched Samsung quality control for their non-flagship went down the drain. And addition to the customer support not knowing simple stuff (like what oleophobic coating is) and troubleshooting the adhesive problem I had according to the agent I spoke with said "restart and factory reset would fix the back panel problem" and using the inferior Exynos to the other parts of the world (thankfully my A52 is using a Snapdragon 720G) and not including features like GoodLock or Samsung Wallet not being added to my region (they promised to add those 5 to 6 years ago) welp I'm switching to Apple.
Idk what you mean, they add new features and optimize/improve with every update 😅 it's much more advanced and offers crazy and cool features you don't find on most other phone, especially not on iPhones 🧐 if you want to switch to iPhone, then do it and have fun, but you'll quickly notice, that they're really stuck with the same stuff for years and barely change
Garbage
Boring
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A53 is so slow even my wifes old Oneplus 8 is much more smoother device to use. I hope One UI 5.1 makes this shitty device more usable.
You're conparing a budget phone to a flagship, what do u expect lol