One of the more controversial aspects of One UI 7 is the separation of the notification shade and the quick settings menu.

Samsung introduced Live Notifications in the Now Bar with One UI 7, but they’re about to get better with One UI 8. These rival Apple’s Live Activities and offer ongoing activities more accessible via ...

The latest builds of One UI 7 have added Live Notifications for media apps that display an ongoing notification for playback control. This extends to apps like Spotify, YouTube, and YouTube Music when ...

Samsung’s One UI 8 will enhance its Live Notifications feature by adopting Android 16’s new “Live Updates” API for broader third-party app support. This new API allows any app to create live, ongoing ...

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Samsung just started rolling out its big One UI 7 update earlier this week, and with it comes an unexpected addition in the form of cross-device YouTube controls that appear through Live Notifications ...

Samsung’s One UI 8.5 may let you prioritize notifications. It may allow users to assign a higher priority to notifications from certain apps so they don’t miss them. The notifications that may be ...

It takes some effort on every Galaxy device to tune notifications so that we don’t become bombarded with alerts at all waking moments. One UI 7 provides an avenue for that, as well as other advanced ...

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One UI 8 will improve Live Notifications in Now Bar by expanding support to third-party apps. The feature was originally introduced with One UI 7, but only a handful of Samsung native apps supported ...