See what's new
in One UI 5
One UI 5 with its powerful new features makes your everyday effortless, allowing you to get things done easily across all your Galaxy devices. Be more expressive and enjoy the enhanced customization experience.
Flex mode
More apps in Flex mode
More apps can now be used with the Flex mode panel. When the Flex mode panel is turned on, just fold your phone upright and tap the button that appears on the navigation bar.1
Improved media controls
Buttons for skipping forward and backward 10 seconds are now available on the Flex mode panel. When you touch the time bar, the time you'll move to will be shown to help you find the right moment.1
Toolbar customization
Create your own personal layout to quickly access features like split screen view, screen capture and more. Touch and hold an icon on the Flex mode panel toolbar to reorder the icons or move icons into or out of the toolbar.1
Multitasking
Better app previews on the Recents screen
The Recents screen now shows apps as they will appear after you open them. You can easily see if an app is opened in split screen, full screen or as a pop-up.
Check minimized apps with the S Pen
Hover your S Pen above a minimized app icon to see a preview of how the app will appear when you open it.2
Easily minimize or switch to full screen
You can now minimize or maximize an app window without going to the options menu. Just drag one of the corners of pop-up windows.
Easier access to the most used apps in split screen view
When you start a split screen view, the apps you use most often will be shown below your recently used apps to help you find the apps you need faster.
Taskbar
More recent apps
You can now choose how many recently used apps to show on the taskbar (up to four).3
Easier navigation
When fewer than eight icons are shown on the taskbar, the navigation area will automatically resize to give you more space for the navigation buttons.3
Camera
Multiple pictures selection in Capture view
While using Capture view on the main screen of your Galaxy Z Fold, you can now press and hold to select multiple pictures. After selecting, you can share or delete them all at once.3
Easier color tone change for selfies
It's easier to change the color tone of your selfies using the Effects button at the side of the screen.
Easy filter selection
Selecting filters on Camera, photo editor and video editor mode got easier. All filters are available in one list, so you can find the perfect filter for your photo or video at once.
Quick access to Expert RAW
Expert RAW lets you take high-quality shots, perfect for those who want to have full control and edit photos later. Expert RAW is now easier to access from the More menu in Camera.4
Enhanced Flex mode layout for Pro modes
When your Galaxy Z Fold is folded upright, manual settings for Pro and Pro video modes will appear on the bottom of the screen so you can easily control ISO, shutter speed and other settings.3
Help guide in Pro mode
Help icon is added in Pro and Pro video modes to provide helpful tips on how to use various lenses, options and controls.
Histogram in Pro mode
Use the histogram to check the brightness to help you get the perfect exposure.
Add watermarks to photos with various style options
Automatically add a watermark in the corner of each photo containing the date and time the shot was taken and customize with various style options to get the perfect look for your watermark.
Gallery
Album customization
Choose which albums appear by default and hide less frequently used albums to clutter down your Gallery. You can also merge albums that have the same name and create albums that automatically update to include pictures of people you select.
Simpler info display
When you swipe up while viewing a picture or video in your Gallery, you can see when and where the picture was taken, which device took the picture, where the picture is stored and more at a glance.
More powerful search
You can now search for more than one person or subject at the same time. You can even search for people without tagging their names just by tapping their faces.
All-new look for Stories
Stories that are automatically created in your Gallery are renewed with an interactive slideshow view.
Photo and video editor
Draw perfect shapes on photos and videos
In Photo and video editor, you can now easily draw certain shapes such as a circle, triangle, rectangle or heart by using the pen tool. Hold your finger on the screen when you finish drawing to make it instantly transform to straight lines and perfect angles.
More sticker options
Make your photos and videos more fun with 60 newly added emoji stickers.
Enhanced GIF editing
Trim and transform animated GIFs to make them the right size or shape.5
Design and interface
Smoother animation
New animations and transition effects make switching between screens feel more natural. Animations and other visual feedback appear instantly when you touch the screen, making interactions more intuitive.
Improved blur effects and simplified color schemes
Background blur effects on the quick panel, Home screen, and throughout One UI have been improved with brighter colors for a clearer and more consistent experience. Simplified app color schemes help you avoid distractions and focus on your current task.
Updated app icons and illustrations
The symbols on app icons are larger to make them look bolder and easier to recognize. A new illustration style is applied to certain apps to give a consistent look.
Customization and expression
Lock screen customization
Just tap and hold the Lock screen to customize your wallpaper, clock style, notification settings and more all in one place with a live preview. In addition, you can easily trim a video clip to create a lively wallpaper. With a few taps, make one of your happiest moments appear on your Lock screen.
More wallpaper choices
Wallpaper settings are redesigned, making it easier for you to find wallpapers for your Home and Lock screens. Browse through newly added colors, graphic wallpapers and Dynamic Lock screens in one place.
Easy recognition with call background
Set a different call background for each contact so you can easily see who's calling with just a quick glance.
More options on your color palette
It's easier to find the colors that are right for you. Choose from up to 16 color themes that match your wallpaper or preset color themes that are beautifully curated to fit your taste.
AR Zone
Diverse AR Emoji stickers
When creating a new AR Emoji, be more expressive with the default 15 stickers provided and new stickers available for download on AR Emoji Sticker app.
Do more with AR Emojis
Use transparent backgrounds for AR Emoji stickers, or choose any picture from your Gallery to use as a background for your emoji in AR Emoji Camera. You can also pair up two emojis together and create fun dances and poses.
Samsung Keyboard
New emojis for emoji pairs
On Samsung Keyboard, 88 new emojis and 10 new animations can be created into emoji pairs. You can now combine animal, food and everyday object emojis in addition to facial expressions. Choose the perfect combination to express your emotion effectively.
Rearrange expression buttons
Touch and hold the emoji, sticker, and other buttons to rearrange the order.
Spacebar row customization
You can choose which function keys and punctuation marks to show in the bottom row of the keyboard next to the spacebar in more detail. Enter frequently used keys easily and quickly.
Widget
New Battery widget
The new Battery widget lets you check the battery level of your Galaxy devices. Right from the Home screen, you can see how much battery is left on your phone, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch and other supported devices.
Weather widget
New illustration style and brief summary of the current weather condition lets you know the weather information intuitively if it's sunny, cloudy, raining or snowing.
Smart suggestions widget
The Smart suggestions widget knows what you need before you do. It suggests apps to use, people to call, calendar events to add and more, based on your usage patterns.
Stack widgets on Home screen
Combine several widgets of the same size into a single widget to make your Home screen look neat and organized. Just drag a widget onto another one to create a stack, then swipe left and right to switch between widgets. You can add more widgets to your stack at any time with a simple drag and drop.6
Modes and Routines
Mode switch from Lock screen
Change between Sleep mode, Driving mode and other modes directly from the Lock screen.
Easier daily routines discovery
The design layout of Discover screen is simplified to make it easier to find useful daily routines.
Different wallpapers based on your mode
Set a different wallpaper on your Lock screen and Home screen based on your current activity. Choose one wallpaper for work, one for workout and more when you set the mode.
Active routines at a glance
Routines that are currently running are now shown at the top of the Routines screen so you can understand what's happening and make changes if necessary.
Sleep mode
Sleep mode lets you automate more actions when it's time for bed, like turning on Dark mode and changing the sound mode.
Modes for your activities
Choose a mode based on what you're doing, such as workout or working to set your phone adequate to each situation. For example, turn on 'Do not disturb' when you're workout or working.
More conditions and actions for daily routines
Automatically start daily routines when you use Airplane mode or Mobile Hotspot. Daily routines can now open an app pair, adjust the left/right sound balance and more.
Connected experience
Share with contacts through Quick Share
You can now send files to your contacts anytime, even if they're not near you.7
Easier invitation to shared apps
You can now easily invite people to shared albums, notes and calendars using a link that can be shared via various apps such as email and social media.
Expanded Multi Control between Galaxy Book and phone
Share the mouse, keyboard or trackpad of your Galaxy Book with not only Galaxy tablet but also Galaxy phone now. You can copy and paste text, and drag and drop images from one device to another seamlessly.8
Wi-Fi speakers on Media output
When you want to continue to listen to music on Wi-Fi speakers through Spotify Connect and Chromecast built-in™ just open Media output on Quick panel not music apps.9
Continue browsing on PC
If you're browsing with Samsung Internet on your phone and later go back to your PC, you can find the websites that were opened on your phone and continue browsing with the PC browser.10
Hide phone notifications on your TV
When viewing content from your phone on your TV with Smart View, you can choose to hide notifications on your TV to prevent others from seeing your personal information.
Connected devices menu
The Connected devices menu is newly added to Settings, making it quicker and easier to access features that work with other devices, like Quick Share, Smart View and Samsung DeX, all in the same place.
Samsung Health
Better workout summaries
Workout summaries help you focus on meaningful information from your exercise.
Stay on track to meet your goals
Rewards, badges, and personal best records have been enhanced to keep you motivated and help you meet your health goals.
Samsung DeX
Newly added taskbar
A search button is on the taskbar, making it easier to find apps. You can also quickly access tasks within certain apps by right-clicking them. Customize buttons and apps you want to show up on the taskbar.
New notification indicator
A red dot appears on the notification button in your taskbar if any new notification is received since the last time you opened the notification panel.
Mini calendar
Clicking the date in your taskbar now opens a mini calendar, allowing you to quickly check your schedule without opening the full Calendar app.
Accessibility
Readability options in quick panel
High contrast font, Color inversion, Color adjustment and Color filter can be added to the quick panel for easier access.
Use your phone as a magnifier
Turn on the Magnifier shortcut in Accessibility settings to get quick access to the Magnifier feature. Magnifier uses your phone's camera to enlarge items or text you want to take a closer look at.
More voice assistance
Choose from various types of voice feedback to get help while using your phone, even if you can't see the screen clearly. You can make your phone read out keyboard input so you can make sure you typed the correct letter, use Bixby Vision to recognize nearby objects and tell you what they are and turn on audio descriptions that explain what's happening in a video (only for supported videos).11
Easily edit on Accessibility button
Tap and hold the Accessibility button to change the features you want to access quickly using the button.
Useful actions on each corner
If you're using a mouse or trackpad, you can now click and hold, drag or drag and drop by moving the mouse pointer to each corner of the screen.
Settings
Choose where to save screenshots and screen recordings
You can now store screenshots and screen recordings in the folder of your choice by setting it in Advanced features.
Exceptions for Do not disturb
You can now set individual contacts as exceptions to Do not disturb. Your phone will ring or vibrate when the designated people call and send messages, even when Do not disturb is on. It’s also easier to set apps as exceptions so you can receive notification alerts from them while the mode is on. Just choose the apps you want to allow by adding them to the list in the simplified menu.
Auto optimization
Device care keeps your phone running smoothly through automatic optimization such as closing background apps and cleaning memory. Also, you can set your phone to automatically restart when needed to keep your phone in its best condition.
Notification
Notification accessibility
When you use an app for the first time, you’ll be asked whether you will allow its notifications. Feel free to say no to apps that you don’t want to be disturbed with.
Easier controls
Is an app sending you too many notifications? Notification controls are now placed at the top of app notification settings to make it easier to block notifications.12
Detailed settings
You can now control the same type of notifications separately. Choose to see all, some or none of pop-up notifications, app icon badges and notifications on the Lock screen. It's up to you.
Improved design layout
Larger app icons and improved text alignment let you quickly and easily read notifications received.
Privacy and security
Maintenance mode
Protect your privacy when someone else is using your phone, such as when you send it in for repairs, maintenance mode prevents your pictures, messages, accounts and other personal data from being accessed.
Intuitive security check
The newly added Security dashboard in Settings lets you easily check security issues and fix them right away.
Secure web browsing
An icon appears in the address bar on Samsung Internet to show the site's security status. Tap the icon to learn which information the website collects and tracks.
Samsung Internet
Layout customization
When you choose to show the address bar at the bottom of the screen, the tab bar and bookmark bar will also be shown at the bottom.
Easier bookmark folder Editing
You can easily create folders or move them into other folders by selecting and dragging the bookmarks and dropping them over to another bookmark or folder.
Weather
Detailed weather info at a glance
Useful weather information now appears on the main screen of the Weather app. You can check severe weather alerts, daily weather summaries, precipitation and cloud amount.
Calendar
Managing event invitees
When you add an event to your Google calendar in the Samsung Calendar app, you can choose whether invitees are allowed to see who else is invited to the event and whether they can invite other people.
Add stickers to your Google calendar
You can now add stickers to Google calendar events in the Samsung Calendar app to make them more noticeable. The added sticker will be visible in both calendar and agenda views.
Add video conferences to your events
When you create a Google calendar event in the Samsung Calendar app, you can set up a video conference at the same time. Everyone invited to your event will receive the link to the video conference.
Reminder
Show and hide completed reminders
You can show or hide the completed reminders regardless of the category. Have completed tasks shown on the screen or hide them to stay focused on things you still need to finish.
Reminder view setup
Choose the view according to your preference. Have more simple reminders show on the screen at once or set it to an expanded view that includes details such as the due date and repeat conditions.
Digital Wellbeing
Redesigned app
The Digital Wellbeing app has been redesigned to make it easier to access the features you need.
Safety and emergency
Send SOS
Quickly press the Side key 5 times to call emergency services even when your phone's in your pocket or you aren't able to speak.
Integrated emergency contact list
The emergency contact list created from your phone can be used on your watch as well.
- Description of items above is based on improvements made in the current version compared to the previous versions.
- Available functions and/or contents may vary depending on the device model, country/region, carrier, or installed version of One UI.
- Available on Galaxy Z Flip series and Galaxy Z Fold series.
- Available on Galaxy Z Fold3 and later Galaxy Z Fold series.
- Available on Galaxy Z Fold series.
- Available on Galaxy Z Fold5, S23 series, Z Fold4, S21 Ultra, Z Fold3, S20 Ultra, Note20 Ultra and Z Fold2.
- Available for GIFs with a total of 230 frames or less.
- Available from 2x1 size widgets. Up to 7 widgets can be stacked.
- Individual files shared cannot exceed 3GB (for a total of 5GB per day) and link will expire after two days; requires a Samsung account and internet connection.
- Multi Control is available only on select Galaxy phone, Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Book devices. It works on tablets with One UI 4.1 or above, phones with One UI 5.1 or above, and Galaxy Book series launched in 2021 or later with either Samsung Settings v1.5 (Intel) or Samsung Settings v3.3 (ARM). Availability of functions may vary depending on the device model.
- Wi-Fi speaker needs to be set up beforehand in order to connect Wi-Fi speaker. Chromecast built-in is a trademark of Google LLC.
- Recent Websites' is only available when using Samsung Internet app on Samsung Galaxy smartphone with One UI 3.1.1 or above (Samsung Galaxy S, Note, Z Fold, Z Flip) and Windows PC with Windows 10 20H1 or above. Requires latest app updates to Microsoft Phone Link/Link to Windows/Samsung internet.
- Bixby Vision for accessibility
- Text Reader feature supports 60 languages that are also supported on Translation feature. Click here to see the list of supported languages.
- Scene describer mode currently supports English (US), French, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese (Mandarin), Portuguese, Russian and Spanish (Spain).
- Some apps may not be able to turn off notifications on notification controls according to the settings in the app.
