After years of sticking with an app drawer that makes use of pages, Samsung is lastly bringing a vertically scrolling app drawer to Galaxy smartphones with its new One UI 7 replace.
Vertically scrolling app drawers have turn into the usual throughout nearly each taste of Android, however Samsung has caught to its weapons for some time with an app drawer that depends on separate pages to deal with your apps. There have been modifications to alter this, similar to utilizing a third-party launcher or Samsung’s Good Lock, however formally, it was at all times this horizontal, objectively slower expertise.
Finally, that’s altering.
With the launch of its One UI 7 beta in the present day, Samsung has launched a vertically scrolling app drawer to Galaxy gadgets. The homescreen defaults to this new expertise and, notably, it’s not elective. There are not any settings that may be tweaked to return to a horizontally scrolling, paginated view.
We did discover that Samsung nonetheless appears to default to a view the place apps aren’t listed vertically, however there’s an possibility to alter between the “customized” or “alphabetical” sorting views.
Other settings you should utilize to regulate the homescreen and app drawer embody altering both view to have 5 columns as a substitute of 4, or to show off the app drawer solely and go for an iOS-like homescreen-only expertise (although why anybody would do join that’s past my understanding). You may also now modify app icon sizes, flip off app labels, and activate labels for widgets.
What do you consider this transformation? Do you like pages within the app drawer?
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