One UI 8 finally expands support for an Android 15 feature sorely missed on One UI 7

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR One UI 8 finally lets you use Android 15’s predictive back gesture on stock Samsung apps. One UI 7 restricted the usage of the predictive back gesture to Google apps. The feature is now enabled by default on the latest One UI 8 beta update. The One UI 8 beta has arrived for the Galaxy S25 series, and we’ve been digging into it to see what’s new. One sweet improvement we’ve found is that Samsung is finally adding support for Android 15’s predictive back gesture in its stock apps, a feature that was (and is) notably missing from the One UI 7 update. Predictive back was introduced with Android 15 and is enabled by default. It enhances gesture navigation by letting users preview the screen they’ll return to before the back gesture is completed. In One UI 7, this feature works mostly only with Google apps. But with the One UI 8 beta, the predictive back gesture now works across several of Samsung’s own apps, such as: Clock Calculator Weather Sett ... Read full article.