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One UI has been with us for six years now, and it’s easily the best Android skin Samsung has made. One UI is smoother, more reliable, and easier to use than Samsung Experience or TouchWiz, the skins that preceded it. Aside from a blip with One UI 7, it’s been updated quicker than ever, often beating other Android skins.
The features One UI delivers have made it my favorite flavor of Android since I first used it on my Galaxy S10 Plus, but there are still things I’d like to change. Motorola, OnePlus, and others have added exciting features to their Android skins, and I’d love to see some of them adopted by Samsung in the next version of One UI.
Which of these featurs would you like to see most on Samsung phones? 28 votes Moto: Gestures 29 % Moto: Easier customisation 14 % Pixel: Now Playing 11 % Pixel: Call Screening 11 % OnePlus: Screenshot pixelation 11 % OnePlus: Open Canvas 25 %
Motorola: Intuitive gestures
It’s hard to believe it’s been twelve years since the original Moto X hit shelves. That phone, along with the Moto G, shaped Motorola’s future over the following decade, and one of the best things it introduced is what the company now calls Kinetic Gestures. The ones I want most are the two that started it all — Fast Torch and Quick Capture.
On a Motorola phone, performing a double karate chop toggles the torch on or off, something that’s incredibly useful when you’re fumbling with keys in the dark and need to add some light to the situation. I use this a lot on my 2023 Razr Plus, where this gesture is much faster than unlocking the phone and swiping through quick settings.
Quick Capture opens the camera or switches between the front and rear lenses if the camera is already open. This gesture requires a double flick of the wrist, and once you get used to it, it’s the easiest way of quickly launching the camera so you don’t miss an important shot.
Motorola: Easy customisation
One UI has plenty of theming options, more than Motorola does, but it’s all split across too many different menus and apps. Theming icons is in Theme Park, fonts are in the settings menu, and the Material You colors are in a menu accessed from the home screen. It’s even worse on Samsung’s Z Flip series, where all of the options for the cover screen are spread across even more menus. It adds too much friction to customising your Samsung phone.
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