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8 useful Samsung One UI 4.1 features you should know about
Samsung One UI 4 is full of new features and customization options. Perfectly adopting the Android 12’s Dynamic theming, the company lets you style your smartphone according to you. You can apply different colors on your phones that match your wallpaper.
Not only this, but Samsung has also brought RAM Plus to all One UI 4 users, new camera features, a smart calendar, smart widgets, Grammarly for the default keyboard, more lock screen widgets, Google Duo Live sharing, advanced editing tools, and much more.
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There are a lot of features that will help you in your day-to-day life for making daily tasks easier. Some of them I have mentioned in this article. Inside you can check the 8 useful Samsung One UI 4.1 features that will change the way you use your smartphone and will help you out in various aspects.
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Useful Samsung One UI 4.1 features
Keep your eyes comfortable:
After a busy day, we only get time to use the smartphone at night but the bright white screen of our phone hurts our eyes causing pain or irritation. Meanwhile, I found the Samsung Eye Comfort Shield to be very useful and effective.
When enabled, it will limit the blue light emission of your smartphone screen and enable warmer colors, thereby preventing potential eye strain. To enable it:
- Swipe down on your screen to access your Quick Settings.
- Swipe across the screen to the next page.
- Locate Eye Comfort Shield.
- Tap on Eye Comfort Shield to enable or disable the setting.
Get search suggestions in Settings:
By default, Samsung offers you different search suggestions in the Settings. You can discover useful features and turn them on or off right from the search screen.
This suggested feature comes in handy if you want to open up recently opened settings directly from the search bar.
Customize your call screen:
Tired of the same, boring caller screen? You can pick your favorite picture and video to show when you make or receive calls. To do this:
- Open the Phone app on your smartphone.
- Tap three dots (More).
- Go to Settings.
- Click on Call Background.
- Select Layout.
- Choose your preferred Call background layout then press the back button to Apply changes.
- Tap on Background.
- Tap on the Plus icon (+) to add a new Call background.
- Select the Photo or Video you would like to use as your Call background.
- If you would like to use a Video as your Call background, ensure that the clip is a maximum of 15 seconds.
- Once you are happy with the background select Set as call background.
- When the Call Background has been applied, you will be able to view your chosen Photo or Video when receiving a call.
Hear what’s on the screen:
Samsung TalkBack is a feature that aids blind and low-vision users. It provides spoken feedback so that you can use your phone or tablet without looking at the screen. The name of the feature will vary between software versions, but the functionality is the same. To enable or disable it:
- Go to your phone’s Settings.
- Scroll down and select Accessibility.
- Tap into TalkBack.
- Toggle TalkBack On or Off.
Widgets on Lock Screen:
Widgets are useful information that is displayed on the lock screen. Samsung One UI 4.1 Lock Screen Widgets not only include the date, time, and day on your device. But it also displays Weather, Digital Wellbeing, Bixby Routines, next alarm, today’s schedule, Voice Recorder, as well as a music player so you don’t have to unlock your phone to get access to some important information.
All these widgets do not come enabled by default, you have to do it through the settings. Here’s how:
- Launch the Settings of your phone.
- Scroll down and enter the Lock Screen section.
- Tap on Widgets.
- Turn the toggle on for the widget you want to see on the lock screen.
You can place multiple widgets on the lock screen, although you can only see one at a time. Tap the clock widget to see others.
Dynamic Lock Screen:
The dynamic Lock screen has its own impact on customizations, so users can maximize it according to their preference. It is a service that automatically updates and displays various images on the lock screen of your Galaxy device.
You can keep things fresh with different images every time you turn on the screen instead of the same wallpaper over and over again. Here’s how:
- Head over to the Settings of your phone.
- Go to Lock Screen.
- Click on Wallpaper services.
- Tap Dynamic Lock Screen.
- Finally, tap Apply.
- If you are enabling the Dynamic Lock screen for the first time, you’ll automatically be taken to the settings where you can select an image pack.
- You can return here by tapping the Settings icon.
- Tap on an image pack to download it and the Dynamic Lock screen will be automatically applied as your wallpaper.
- Open the first app you want to use.
- Slide from the Edge Panel.
- Hold down another app you want to use in split-screen view.
- Drag it to the bottom or top of the screen.
- You can press the Home or Back button to exit the split-screen view.
Reach the whole screen with one hand:
With the increase in display size, controlling your phone with one hand can be difficult for many. If there’s an area of the screen that you can’t reach or to navigate your phone easier, you can use One Hand Mode. To enable this:
- Open the Settings of your phone.
- Scroll down to enter Advanced features.
- Click One-handed mode.
- Enable the feature.
- You can select between one of two methods to open one-hand mode.
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Owners of select Samsung Smart TVs, monitors, The Premiere 7 & 9 projectors, or The Freestyle 2nd Gen can stream Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Flight Simulator 2024 and hundreds of other games with Gaming Hub Xbox Game Pass.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Flight Simulator 2024 are two of the most popular games of 2024. Thanks to Samsung Gaming Hub, you don’t need to download any of the Xbox Game Pass titles, no meaning no storage required – just jump in and play.
The company has also built an engaging gameplay experience designed by fans, for fans through The Six, challenging players’ knowledge and providing another way to interact with the world of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Notably, Samsung’s Gaming Hub is available on a variety of Samsung screens. It includes the AI-powered 2024 TV lineup, monitors, projectors, The Premiere, and The Freestyle 2nd Gen projector, offering instant access to console-free gaming.
Anyone with a Samsung Smart TV will be able to use their remote to jump in and play. This way, Gaming Hub provides a co-branded experience, giving Call of Duty fans another way to engage with the franchise they love.
For starters: The Six offers daily trivia where players can answer a series of six questions in competition with other players around the world. Correct answers with the fastest response time will achieve higher scores.
Samsung could launch the Galaxy ixi-O AI Phone next year. The company has collaborated with LG Uplus to develop a custom smartphone. The device is said to feature Galaxy AI and LG Uplus’s AI call assistant ixi-O.
Sources citing KEDGlobal revealed that Samsung and LG Uplus working together to develop the Galaxy ixi-O AI Phone. It’s a big development in the smartphone industry, while the handset is highly likely to be Korea-limited.
Samsung fans are well aware of the Galaxy AI feature suite. ixi-O is an AI-powered digital assistant developed by Korean carrier LG Uplus. The company plans to enter the smartphone market, featuring its own-developed AI assistant.
The report indicates that Samsung and LG Uplus’ ixi-O AI Phone will launch as early as next year. The development project focuses on crafting a “real AI phone” that goes beyond simply integrating AI assistant services into a smartphone.
ixi-O comes with useful features such as AI call answering, detecting voice phishing in real-time, recording and summarizing phone calls and converting voice conversation into text – all within an on-device environment.
Image: ixi-O AI | LG Uplus Newsroom
Based on specifications, the Galaxy ixi-O AI Phone will be based on a Galaxy phone available globally. The design will match with a global Galaxy smartphone, but the software may be tweaked as per the carrier’s requirements.
A custom Galaxy phone isn’t shocking or impossible in South Korea. Samsung releases Quantum, Buddy, and Jump-branded phones in the market. The company collaborates with Korean carriers to bring these devices to mainland Korea.
The carrier introduced an on-device AI-powered ixi-O assistant earlier this month. LG Uplus will initially target its consumer base for the new AI Phone. However, the AI Assistant may be expanded to a broader audience across Korea.
Samsung could use Gauss2-based Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The company’s next-gen Generative AI model is 1.5 to 3x faster than the first-gen Gauss model. The DX division is already using Gauss2 to ramp up internal productivity.
Gauss2 offers improved performance and efficiency in simultaneously handling various data types. In the previous article, we’ve demonstrated its three distinct models that cater to different purposes: Compact, Balanced, and Supreme.
Samsung says the second-gen Gauss model offers equal or superior performance in response generation than leading open-source generative AI models. That said, the Galaxy AI will become faster and smarter with the inclusion of Gauss2.
Thanks to faster processing speed, Gauss2 enables quicker AI response generation. This way, the Galaxy user won’t have to wait much time. The company stated that it will continue to expand the reach of its AI-based services across all product lines.
That said, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is likely to boast Gauss2-based Galaxy AI. This upgrade will result in even faster processing of tasks and execution. Features like composition, image generation, and translation would benefit from Gauss2.
Earlier, we broke the news that Samsung is crafting an advanced AI technology. The Gauss2 press release indicates that the future Galaxy AI iteration could be integrated with knowledge graph technology to offer relevant results.
The Galaxy S24 series also uses Google’s Gemini Nano AI model. The fruitful collaboration offers futuristic capabilities on Galaxy devices. Samsung is rumored to use an enhanced version of Gemini Nano across the Galaxy S25 lineup.
Meanwhile, Samsung’s development may have indulged Gauss2 capabilities on the Galaxy S25 series. Integrated with new processors and optimized software, the company’s AI model would offer faster, reliable, and smarter results.