Samsung’s new Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 telephones add a bunch of intelligent new options designed for foldable telephones as a part of its One UI 3.1.1 update, however in case you already personal a Fold 2, Z Flip, and even the unique Galaxy Fold, you’ll nonetheless be capable of get among the new additions with out shelling out for a brand new cellphone.

Available on all 5 foldable fashions is the brand new Drag and Split characteristic, which — because the identify implies — means that you can faucet and drag on a hyperlink to open it facet by facet with the unique webpage or message.

Samsung’s bigger Fold fashions can even be getting the adjustable app home windows for its multitasking mode, permitting you to regulate the peak and width of the person apps when you’ve a number of apps open directly. The older fashions can even get the mechanically rotating app operate, customized facet ratios, and a newly added break up view for messaging apps.

Lastly, for each the Z Fold 2 and the sooner Z Flips, Samsung is including the choice to drive apps to make use of its “Flex mode” that places video content material on one half of a folded show, with playback controls on the opposite.

Samsung has labored to assist maintain its older foldables related even whereas rolling out new software program options on its newer units earlier than. It provided the same replace for the unique Fold final 12 months when it launched the Galaxy Z Fold 2 that added a number of new options it had launched with the second-generation foldable. It’s a testomony to how new the foldable discipline is generally. Samsung remains to be determining one of the best methods to make use of these new kind components, however it’s additionally not abandoning early adopters.

The One UI 3.1.1 replace ought to be rolling out to Fold 2 and Z Flip house owners beginning immediately, whereas the unique Galaxy Fold is predicted to get the replace “around a week later.”