Samsung's 'One UI' Is Expanding To All of Its Consumer Devices

First announced in 2018, Samsung's "One UI" software is expanding to all the company's major tech products in 2025. 9to5Google reports: At its annual developer conference, Samsung announced that "One UI" is the new name for the company's software experiences across "major product lines." This specifically includes TVs and home appliances. Samsung says: "In addition, the company announced that it will integrate the software experience of its major product lines -- from mobile devices to TVs and home appliances -- under the name One UI next year. By providing a cohesive product experience and committing to software upgrades for up to seven years, Samsung will continue to bring innovation for its customers."

There's no word on how, if at all, this will affect software design or features, but the cohesive branding and the announcement mentioning that it will "integrate the software experience" implies we'll see similar designs across the company's portfolio, at least eventually. Samsung also announced that One UI 7, its next Android update, would be delayed to 2025 with a beta "before the end of the year" during the same keynote.

Samsung announces enshittification of portfolio

[Kiddo 9000]

I switched to a Samsung phone for my most recent upgrade and I want off (of Samsung's wild ride!). Most unbearable version of android I've ever used with stupid design choices, adverts and paid promotions everywhere, and notably buggy software updates recently. 30gb of unwanted uninstallable crap is not acceptable!

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[JamesTRexx]

Let me guess, you're not living in the EU?

Mine, Dutch Xcover 7, not from a telecom subscription, came SIM unlocked, no advertising, and just the usual few promotions of big tech companies.
I removed or disabled almost everything (read Google) I found unneccessary with App Manager (F-Droid installation) and installed Olauncher because I want a simple and easily readable interface.
The phone has behaved very well so far, including several updates, and the only complaint I have is the lack of a notification led.

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[pitch2cv]

Mind you, as long as Samsung doesn't release their firmware or a reverse engineered version is developed, there will be no VoLTE. So, the future of Samsung looks like a dead end for AOSP-based ROMs.

Been on CM since the s3, LOS after that, and beyond2lte is the last Samsung device I'll have because of no VoLTE.

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[HiThere]

That has not been my experience. Of course, I don't use apps, so that may be the difference. What I wanted was a phone. The address book was a nice convenience, especially as they stopped selling the small pocket address books. (Putting one together yourself is a real pain, and the end product isn't as good as one commercially bound.)

OTOH, perhaps the problem isn't Samsung, but rather your carrier. A lot of what's on the phone is determined by the carrier rather than by the manufacturer.

(That said, thi

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[Kiddo 9000]

I have confirmed that it is not my carrier installing the bloat. They put a couple shortcut things on but it's just basically glorified web links that are easily disabled. Samsung integrates OneDrive directly into several system apps for example, and they do not allow you to remove some 3D-avatar-app-thing that hogs up a couple gigs of space either. You can tell most of this junk is from them because it has Samsung branding on it. If you don't use the 'smart' aspect of your smartphone then yeah you probably won't notice a lot of this, but it is very frustrating since I do actually use my phone frequently for many things. And when I compare my older Pixel 5 (which is a slower phone) running GrapheneOS to my Galaxy S22 stuck full of bloat and find out the Pixel is faster for even the simplest of tasks by a significant amount, it really frustrates me.

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[Kiddo 9000]

Just found out Samsung got so sloppy with updates recently they pushed one that bricked several older Galaxy models. OOPS!

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[antdude]

No way to recover? Wow. Did Samsung even offer to replace them?

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[Kiddo 9000]

Samsung is not doing replacements as you can unbrick your phone by doing a factory reset. The issue is a boot loop that occurs after the SmartThings app gets updated, but you can still get into recovery mode from what it sounds like. Samsung is working on a fix to potentially unbrick phones without a wipe, and some people in South Korea claim Samsung has found a fix [reddit.com] for them, but I'd imagine since the NA region Samsung phones are far more locked down it might be harder to do the same fix to them.

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[kellin]

You're not wrong. I went through three versions of Samsung Galaxy phones. Version 9 was my last. I got sick of the bloat, the performance degradation, and had at least one phone refuse to stay on after a while. Someone confirmed that Samsung's UI was complete garbage. I switched to One Plus 7T Pro back in 2019 and haven't looked back. Phone still runs really well, and I can easily ignore the handful of stupid One Plus branded apps.

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[kalpol]

Yeah it is sad. The Galaxy S3 was a great phone, I have still one and a S4 as media devices running Lineage.

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[antdude]

Yep, I hated that in my work's Galaxy S6 edge. Ugh! Thanks God I got paid to use it. :P

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[drinkypoo]

Next time, buy Moto.

Comparable phones are cheaper AND if you buy direct/unlocked they come with ZERO unremovable third-party crapware. They use the standard launcher. They still make phones which are bootloader unlockable, although you have to do your research ahead of time as to which ones.

My Moto G Power 2021 has 4GB, 8 cores, and gets 4-5 days of battery life with normal use. And the few pack-in apps were installed to the user side, and therefore could be removed.

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[kalpol]

Agree, still have a pretty old Motorola doing daily driver work with the stock image. The only thing I really ever complained about was how it handles external storage. No drama otherwise and it was inexpensive too.

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[Kiddo 9000]

I'll have to look into what they are offering, I was surprised at the success of the razr. Buying unlocked is not a concern for me (I live in Canada) so I'll have to check if my carrier has any when my current contract ends.

Microsoft tried that

[89cents]

Microsoft tried that with Windows 8 / server 2012 / Windows phone and it was hated and removed.

Perhaps the best user interface for a device should be determined by the device characteristics. A small touchscreen device (phone) is quite different from a TV that uses a remote. A mouse or keyboard greatly changes the way you can interact with a device as well.

Good luck with that!

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Microsoft tried that with Windows 8 / server 2012 / Windows phone and it was hated and removed.

It wasn't removed, it was just frog-boiled and fudged a bit to make it less obvious. We've still got most of the UI designed for use with a phone running on our desktops and laptops, we've just become accustomed to it, sort of like you get used to an abusive relationship over time.

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[drinkypoo]

They did change it quite a bit, though, and they brought back the start menu. Yes, there is more crap in it, but at least it's basically recognizable.

It's terrible, don't get me wrong, but they did figure out that they were going the wrong direction.

This is not an announcement

[LordHighExecutioner]

It is a threat!

One UI to serve you adverts

[Growlley]

Everywhere for ever - if you want them or not,

Sounds awful, make it stop

[nigels]

My retired mother has a nice new Samsung TV that is a bit enthusiastic about being connected to the wifi.
Luckily for her I know the wifi password and the TV does not, and shall not.
But it's a terrible experience that the TV "stops working" and "needs" to connect for Samsung reason.
It's not your TV Samsung, it's Mum's TV, please stop.

it's pretty bad though

[kalpol]

I've got two Galaxy Tab S6s, exactly the same except one has LineageOS and one has the stock image. The stock one is laggy, buggy, and intrusive, along with a bunch of unremovable stuff installed I never use. It's a great tablet with Lineage.

I Hate the World of Cellphones

[BrendaEM]

I hate the spying, tracking, and data collection that cellphones brought to the world. I hate the limited guarantees and the lack of changeable batteries. I hate the lack of buttons and physical keys. I hate that nearly every hyped cellphone on the market has the same candybar format, and I hate that the lack of diversity in cellphone design is so sparse that most people cannot even remember what "candybar" meant. I hate both: Apple's walled-in garden--and Google's Android cesspool. I hate Samsung's curved