Here’s how Samsung’s One UI 7 replace copies iOS [Gallery]

Samsung’s One UI 7 replace is large and, for probably the most half, fairly good, however there’s some clear affect all through as Samsung has seemingly been attempting to duplicate a bunch of options and design traits from iOS. Here’s an inventory of the entire methods Samsung’s Android 15 replace tries to repeat iOS.

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‘Now Bar’ and ‘Live Notifications’

One of the very apparent ways in which Samsung’s One UI 7 replace is mimicking iOS is within the replace’s new Dynamic Island clones, and there are two of them.

On the lockscreen, there’s the “Now Bar,” which exhibits ongoing duties reminiscent of stopwatches, timers, music, and extra. Meanwhile, “Live Notifications” inside can even present ongoing duties within the standing bar, with a faucet revealing further controls.

While the position is totally different, these are going after the identical performance because the Dynamic Island, which is a welcome addition! Unfortunately, although, Samsung’s model of this doesn’t combine with third-party apps (a minimum of not but), leaving the utility questionable.

App icon sizes, widget names

iOS 18 was an enormous replace for homescreen customization, with Apple lastly giving customers additional customizations over app icons and extra, and Samsung now copied those that it was lacking. Users can now present a reputation on widgets, identical to iOS does, in addition to having the ability to flip off app names and alter the dimensions of app icons, identical to Apple launched in iOS 18.

Redesigned multitasking web page

One of probably the most express copies in One UI 7 is the multitasking web page, which is almost equivalent to what you’ll discover in iOS.

New battery icon

Meanwhile, Samsung has additionally adopted a brand new battery icon which appears to be like loads like Apple’s. There’s even a brand new charging animation through which the icon turns inexperienced when the system is related to a charger.

Separated notification tray and Quick Settings

Finally, Samsung launched a break up notification tray and Quick Settings tray in One UI 7. This leaves the 2 functioning extra like iOS, with a swipe down from the highest left revealing notifications, and from the highest proper revealing Quick Settings.

This is one thing that’s been adopted by a whole lot of Android producers just lately, nevertheless it’s precisely what Apple has been doing for a number of years at this level.

Thankfully, Samsung leaves it absolutely optionally available.

While a whole lot of these modifications are fairly clearly impressed by iOS, Samsung’s replace as a complete has a whole lot of welcome modifications that aren’t coming from “the fruit firm.” And, in lots of circumstances, the modifications Samsung have made that do observe iOS are arguably for the higher anyway.

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