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And I think it's a really bad feature, and actually suggest never enabling it in the first place. I don't know what Samsung was thinking. This just probably benefits insurance companies more than anybody else. I think now we're a few builds into the Android 17 beta or One UI 9 beta for Samsung Galaxy phones. I think it's the perfect time to take a look at what's coming ahead with its debut on foldables in the very near future. There's a lot here to get into, so let's get into it in this video. Do me a quick solid though, if you love this content, subscribe to the channel. I'd really love to have you as part of the crew. And we will do a deep dive into One UI 9 when it is in stable
options for Galaxy phones in the coming months. So, yeah, stick around for that if you want that. So, first and foremost, one of the most prominent changes in One UI 9 here is the updated and enhanced quick settings panel. I think at first glance it looks really similar to what's been used in One UI 8.5, but there are some visual changes like thicker sliders for the volume and brightness panels. It doesn't stop there though as the dark mode and volume setting toggles, which were integrated into these are now undocked from these sliders. Another nice touch. It does get better though as there are even more changes when you start to make edits.
Firstly, there are new toggles for some accessibility options including the select to speak option, which basically just reads aloud UI sections. The after mentioned dark mode and volume level buttons, quick buttons are also undocked as I say they're buttons in their own right, which you can access. If you want to make adjustments and changes, the quick settings panel also handles toggle resizing a little bit better than before with the ability to remove and resize things quite drastically. The volume and brightness sliders can now be resized as a result of that undocked option to two by one for the first time on Samsung Galaxy phones, which I does I do think allows you to have more compact
layouts, more accessible layouts, better layouts for you. The media player has moved some things around as well like the album and podcast information, the text it shows. It's gained new circular toggles for the play, pause, skip, and go back buttons, but it also has an extra lick of paint with better handling of album art colors. For me, I think it looks a lot richer, a lot more vibrant, and when playing the visualizer waveform that is actually on the playback progress bar, will have more color and vibrancy because it actually takes more hues from the currently playing album art, which is another nice touch. One thing that makes a big visual difference though is the added blur to
even more areas in the One UI 9 interface. I think credit where it's due, Gaussian blur is really well implemented here basically everywhere where it matters, so you might see this if you don't have any notifications in the notification shade, but overall blur is added to a lot more sections here in One UI 9. As for the status bar, I think this is a really cool touch as you can now add a network speed indicator to the status bar area for the first time. This has actually been a huge change because it has been available on Chinese phones for quite a long time. It is finally here, and I think it is a useful way to see if anything rogue is using our data, our Wi-Fi connection, or when you're streaming something you get a better
idea of how much data you happen to be using. Samsung's also adjusted the status bar pill size in the status bar itself to be bigger, but it means you get more information at a glance, but I do think this is one of those changes where it can feel a little bit congested compared to that smaller pill bar. I think this is technically about the navbar section, but it is something that has existed on Android for a couple of years now. And while I will say I'm not much of a Samsung browser person, I do love that there is the ability to turn each browser window now with One UI 9 into the recent section. So, this isn't necessarily a new function Android, it's actually something that was around during the material area, and
it's a change that comes back. I think it's really great for multitasking or quick reference. Overall, the Samsung browser is a nice robust browsing tool, but I don't necessarily think I will switch back over from Chrome as it's something I've accustomed to for quite a while now. And since One UI 8.5 there have been a ton of visual changes in various first-party applications. Floating bars are back now, and it's even in more places. On the one hand, I really like this as you a clean gesture bar and an area around that where you might see certain UI sections. On the other hand, I do think this is a little bit obscure.
I'm sort of indifferent to it all, I must admit. If you do use the routines feature, Samsung has also done the right thing here though, and added an [clears throat] explanation text for each of those presets that you might want to use. So, it does mean that you're not guessing what they do or don't do. It's another nice touch. I do think it was something that probably should have been added in the beginning when routines were added to devices. I think with One UI 7, the game booster tool bar as well has also gained some new options like screenshot resolution that actually will bypass the game specific setting. And there's also an option here for bypass charging controls. I can have to say I'm not much of a big mobile gamer, so it doesn't
matter to me all that much. But I can 100% see the value in these nice extra options. Truly great to see features like this get enhanced over time as they get added and then kind of forgotten about. Samsung Notes also has an interesting new tape tool for obscuring text and images. I'm actually not entirely sure how useful it will be to me beyond maybe necessarily as a study aid. You can draw over text, and then with the S Pen you can tap it to reveal what's underneath. I like that this is getting some attention, but I'm not really sure how useful this is going to be for everyone. But yeah, it's another feature that's added as part of a part a section that doesn't necessarily get all
that much attention within the grand scheme of things. When you are using One UI 9, if you happen to try to restart or power down your phone when it is installed, you will need to enter a PIN. And this is just a quick added security measure, which is probably a good thing. But yeah, this is something that wouldn't necessarily be available on all devices from the very get-go. This happens to work every single time now here in One UI 9. And looking at the camera, well, there isn't a ton of changes, but there is an option here for the camera with the ability to record vertical video from the selfie and rear camera simultaneously. This does create a one-to-one ratio square video, which I
think might be nice for Instagram, but maybe not that useful outside of social media. Sadly, this is limited to 1080p, which I do think does limit where you might share it. But yeah, you want to record the front-facing camera and the rear camera at the same time and zoom in on that rear camera as well, you can do that now with the One UI 9. And honestly, I do think one of the biggest and best new additions in One UI 9 has to be the ability to block certain apps from connecting to the internet within the settings section. So, network restrictions is a brand new and powerful tool and it kind of makes you wonder why this hasn't been available for some time already. There are so many applications
out there that don't need external connections. So, I think this is a bit of a privacy game-changer. Think gamers should 100% take a look at it as yeah, I don't need Balatro to be connected to the internet, but this is a great kill switch to have and you can choose this per every single app on your phone, even if they do need a network connection, you want to put a kill switch on it when you're out and about, do so. Really, really cool touch. Samsung has also improved the dialer or phone application experience by merging all calling applications into a unified section with the One UI 9 update. So, if you open the phone application, you might see previous Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber,
LINE, and other applications which have their own calling option, they'll be visible in the feed, meaning you can just call someone again, you can see when they miss your call. I do think this is another nice touch and if I'm being honest, is this something pulled from iOS? Let me know down in the comments sections below. So, there's some really good stuff there, but not all features on One UI are good in the traditional sense and I personally feel like the driver report function is one of those. I got to say I've actually refused to use this as it can do things like track recent drive data, then use that data to give you a report on various things about maybe how often you hit the accelerator rapidly or
slam on the brakes so you can take a sharp turn or even how many times you use your phone while driving. And while I'm all for policing your phone usage while you're behind the wheel, I don't think there's any reason to have this data on your phone. It almost is certainly going to be used to sell that data to insurance companies in my opinion. There is no reason to have this on your phone and I think it's a really bad feature and actually suggest never enabling it in the first place. I don't know what Samsung was thinking. This just probably benefits insurance companies more than anybody else. But yeah, the driver report feature, it is there. Again, don't use it. I think it's
a waste of time. So, that's a decent amount of features that are added in One UI. It's not every single one. We're not going into too many of the intricacies cuz we will can get into them into a deeper dive later down the line. But it's highly likely that this the new Galaxy Fold will ship with this pre-installed. And there will no doubt be extra little things added that we probably haven't seen yet in this beta phase. Google has confirmed that Gemini intelligence was coming to the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 when that was announced pre-I/O. So, I would expect that to be rolled out once it's ready. We're not sure if it's going to be ready with the new foldable phones. But this will be a
layer on top of Android that will do more AI-powered tasks and optimizations, which yeah, means not everyone's going to need to use this. I do wonder how the create my widget feature will look on Samsung phones and if we'll get visual changes for Gemini intelligence for Galaxy devices when it does eventually roll out or sometime later this year. But yeah, we don't really know just yet. Knowing Samsung though, it'll take a few months before any of you will see this on your phone anyway, which is well, kind of is what it is at this stage. Let me know what you think down of down in the comment sections below about One UI
9. As I say, we will do a deeper dive into the stable release in the future hopefully as well. But cheers for watching. Hopefully you've enjoyed this. As always, I will speak to you later.
