One of essentially the most spectacular options in One UI 7.0 is the Now Bar. It is a very new UI aspect that showcases ongoing actions on the telephone and seems on the lock display. However, Now Bar is at present appropriate solely with just a few inventory apps. Let’s have a better have a look at it.
Now Bar is a gorgeous-looking characteristic in One UI 7
The Now Bar on One UI 7.0 shows ongoing actions, like music playback and an lively timer, on Galaxy telephones. It is appropriate with the next apps and actions:
- Bixby
- Clock (stopwatch and timer)
- Emergency Sharing
- Interpreter
- Maps
- Samsung Health
- Samsung Notes
- Voice Recorder
It is a pill-shaped UI aspect that first seems on the left aspect of the standing bar on the prime of the display with associated controls (pause, cease, and so on). When you click on it, it maximizes to a pill-shaped bar on the prime of the display. When you lock the telephone’s display, the Now Bar seems on the backside of the lock display.
You can watch it in motion in our in-depth video under.
When you play audio or video, the Now Bar seems with album artwork and music playback controls (earlier observe, play/pause, and subsequent observe). When you click on the music playback Now Bar on the lock display, it reveals extra info together with a much bigger album artwork in the midst of the display and a media output switcher. You can see that in our photographs under.
When a number of ongoing movies are current, the Now Bar widgets for every exercise are stacked on prime of one another, and you’ll cycle between them by flicking these widgets up or down.
There is even a Now Bar that seems on the lock display if you join your telephone to a charger. It shows the charging pace, the remaining time for a full cost, and the present cost stage. The Now Bar for charging additionally acts as a progress bar, as the colour stuffed up within the pill-shaped aspect corresponds to the present battery cost stage.
The Now Bar at present solely works with some inventory Samsung apps and system companies, however we hope Samsung will help third-party apps with Android 16 and One UI 8.0. A earlier report indicated that Google is internally engaged on an iOS-like Live Activities characteristic for Android 16, which may very well be built-in into the Now Bar for One UI.
