Samsung’s One UI 7 Beta Update: Exciting Features and Enhancements

Samsung’s latest software skin, One UI 7, is currently in its beta phase, expanding to more Galaxy smartphones and tablets. The latest beta update has hit the Galaxy foldables, Z Fold 6 and Flip 6, and the Galaxy S23 series has also begun receiving the Android 15-based One UI 7 beta software. Here are the exciting features and enhancements via the changelog.

Availability and Update Details

The One UI 7 beta program is now available for the Galaxy S23 series in a few selected regions, including India, South Korea, the US, and the UK. The update carries the build number ZYC3 and has a huge update size of over 4GB. It integrates a host of new and exciting features alongside some key improvements for existing functionalities.

New Features and Enhancements

The latest One UI 7 beta firmware offers various exciting features, including:

• Galaxy AI: More improved Galaxy AI, allowing users to experience enhanced features.
• Visual Enhancements: A stunning redesign of icons and overall UI, providing a more consistent visual experience.
• Home Screen: An enhanced home screen with new features, such as a simplified grid layout and improved landscape view.
• Lock Screen and AOD: New clock styles, more flexible editing, and additional widgets and shortcuts.
• Quick Panel and Notifications: Separate notification and quick panels, live notifications, and a new notification layout.
• Camera: A new camera layout, mode selection improvements, enhanced zoom controls, and more.
• Image and Video Editing: Free-form collages, edit collages in stories, motion photo effects, and powerful video editing features.
• Health Functions: A new Mindfulness feature, Samsung Health badges, medication reminders, and more.
• Productivity: Previews for minimized apps, group alarms, enhanced file selection, and advanced options for routines.
• Connect and Share: Recommended devices for Quick Share, continue sharing over the internet, and more.
• Security: Check the security status of devices, stay safe from security threats, and more.
• Battery and Charging: More options for power saving, more control over battery protection, and a new charging effect.
• Accessibility: Zoom in and out with one finger, enhanced screen controls, and customize touch interactions.

Full Changelog

For more detailed knowledge, you can check out the full changelog of the Android 15-based One UI 7 beta for the Galaxy S23 series below:

Galaxy Al

Let Galaxy Al help you with writing tasks wherever you can select text. You can correct spelling and grammar, change tone, summarize, or apply formatting. You can even start with a short snippet and let the AI do the writing for you.

Transcribe Recorded Calls

It’s easier than ever to review the content of your recorded calls in the Samsung Phone app. You can view the entire conversation as a text transcript on the Recents screen.

Bold New Look

Enjoy a more sophisticated and unique look. One UI 7 introduces a stunning redesign to key components, including buttons, menus, notifications, and control bars, providing a more consistent visual experience with curves and circles.

Reimagined Icons and Widgets

Fresh new app icons will look great on your Home screen with new visual metaphors and color schemes that make it easier to recognize the app you need. Widgets have also been completely redesigned with more colorful images and more consistent layouts.

Enhanced Home Screen

• Simplified Home Screen Grid: Your Home screen now looks even better than before. A new standard grid layout keeps things symmetrical and makes it easier to use One UI widgets in standard sizes.
• Improved Home Screen Landscape View: Get a more consistent look for your Home screen, even when using your phone horizontally.
• Customize Your App and Widget Style: Make your Home screen look just the way you like it. You can now adjust the size of app icons and choose whether or not to show text labels below app icons and featured widgets.

Lock Screen and Always On Display

• Stay on Top of Important Tasks with the Now Bar: Check the information you need right now and start essential features without unlocking your phone.
• Make Your Clock Look Just the Way You Like It: Discover a variety of new clock styles for your Lock screen.
• More Flexible Editing: It’s easier than ever to edit your Lock screen. You can resize your clock to any size you like and drag it to your desired position.

Quick Panel and Notifications

• Separate Notification and Quick Panels: Instantly access the panel you need with more space for quick settings.
• Live Notifications: Stay on top of what’s happening right now. Live notifications show you the progress of ongoing activities like timers, voice recordings, exercises, and more.
• New Notification Layout: Icons on notifications are now the same as the icon that appears on your Home screen, making it easy to recognize which app sent each notification.

Capture Images with Ease

• New Camera Layout: Camera buttons, controls, and modes have been reorganized to make it easier to find the features you need and to give you a clearer preview of the picture you’re taking or the video you’re recording.
• Mode Selection Improvements: The More modes menu has been redesigned.
• Enhanced Zoom Controls: It’s now easier to choose the right zoom level.

Enjoy Your Special Moments

• Free-Form Collages: Go beyond the preset layouts for collages in Gallery. You can now adjust the size, position, and rotation of images in your collage to create your own unique layout.
• Edit Collages in Stories: Make your story’s collage look just the way you like it.
• Motion Photo Effects: Apply fun playback effects to your motion photos such as slow motion or boomerang.

Powerful Video Editing

• Easily Undo Your Edits: Don’t worry about making mistakes. Undo and Redo options are now available when editing videos.
• Animate Your Videos: Add fun animation effects to stickers and text in your videos in Studio.

Manage Your Health

• Stay Mindful: The new Mindfulness feature in Samsung Health can help you manage stress and anxiety in your daily life.
• New Samsung Health Badges: Stay motivated and work toward your health goals while earning new badges in Samsung Health.
• Never Forget Your Medications: You can now set up medication reminders in Samsung Health.

Boost Your Productivity

• Previews for Minimized Apps: When multiple pop-up windows from the same app are minimized, they’ll be combined into a single icon.
• Group Your Alarms: Create groups of alarms that you want to control together in the Clock app.
• Enhanced File Selection: The new File Picker makes it easier to attach and select files in a variety of apps.

Plan Tasks and Events

• Easily Reschedule Calendar Events: Just drag and drop an event from one date to another on your calendar in Month view to change the event date.
• Show Separate Calendars on Widgets: You now have more control over which calendars appear on your calendar widgets.
• Count Down the Days to an Important Event: It’s easier than ever to create a countdown widget for an event on your calendar.

Connect and Share

• Recommended Devices for Quick Share: Devices signed in to your Samsung account and devices you’ve shared with in the past will appear at the top of the list so they’re easy to find.
• Continue Sharing Over the Internet: No need to worry about failed file transfers.

Protect Your Security

• Check the Security Status of Your Devices: Find out about security risks and solve them quickly.
• Stay Safe from Security Threats: Auto Blocker does even more to protect you from cyber attacks when Maximum restrictions is turned on.

Battery and Charging

• More Options for Power Saving: You now have more control over what happens when your phone is in Power saving mode.
• More Control Over Battery Protection: When you turn on Battery protection, you can now adjust the maximum charging level anywhere between 80% and 95%.

Accessible to Everyone

• Zoom in and Out with Just One Finger: Zooming in and out just got easier.
• Enhanced Screen Controls: The Assistant menu now does even more to help you control the screen.

Even More Improvements

• Watch Videos Again: In Video Player, a button will appear at the end of each video that lets you start the video over again from the beginning.
• Improved Contacts List: For a more consistent experience, the same contact list now appears in both the Phone app and Contacts app.
• Quickly Add Boarding Passes to Samsung Wallet: When you view a supported airline or travel webpage that includes a boarding pass in Samsung Internet, a button will appear so you can add it to Samsung Wallet quickly and easily.