Samsung’s One UI 4 Is Now Available on the Galaxy S21

After Google pushed out Android 12 final month, Samsung is now following up with the official launch of its One UI 4 software program instruments for the Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra immediately.

While earlier variations of Samsung’s tackle Android already embrace help for numerous new options in Android 12 like scrolling screenshots, Samsung continues to be incorporating different additions to Android 12 in One UI 4 to ship issues like up to date widgets, enhanced privateness and safety, and improved customization.

When it involves personalizing your system, One UI 4 now has new Color Palettes, which make it simpler to vary the looks of app icons, notifications, and extra. Similar to Android 12, notifications and fast settings icons in One UI 4 at the moment are a bit extra compact and have extra intuitive grouping. Meanwhile, a wider vary of emoji, stickers, and GIFs on the Samsung keyboard ought to allow you to categorical your self higher in texts and chats.

The lock display screen in One UI 4 has additionally gotten just a few upgrades together with the flexibility to entry Samsung’s voice recorder app without having to totally unlock your telephone, together with some enhancements to Samsung’s always-on show.

As for safety, similar to within the inventory Android 12, Samsung can be including new alerts in One UI 4 that pop up when an app is accessing your telephone’s microphones or cameras, whereas the brand new Privacy Dashboard is designed to place all your essential safety settings and controls in a single place. Samsung is even supporting Android 12’s Private Compute Core function, which acts as a sandbox to assist isolate your information from sure apps or features, and tracks suspicious app exercise.

Unfortunately, until you’ve gotten an unlocked Galaxy S21 system, you’ll most likely have to attend on your service to check and certify One UI 4 earlier than pushing the replace out to your telephone, which may take one other few months. However, if you happen to do have an unlocked S21, you must be capable to seize One UI 4 immediately within the Software Update tab in your telephone’s settings menu.

As for different Samsung gadgets, Samsung says One UI 4 will develop into obtainable “soon” on older Galaxy S telephones, Galaxy Note telephones, mid-range Galaxy A-series telephones, and tablets and foldables together with Samsung’s Z Flip and Z Fold telephones.