One UI 5.0 vs One UI 4.1 – What’s new inside Samsung Color Palette

Samsung added a feature called Color Palette to Galaxy devices with its Android 12-based One UI 4.0 software and later slightly improved it with One UI 4.1. Now the Android 13-based One UI 5.0 is here and Samsung has brought significant changes to its Color Palette function.

What is Samsung Color Palette?

Based on Android’s Material You theming, the Samsung Color Palette offers different themes that sync with your current lock screen or home screen wallpaper. When you choose one palette, the whole theme will be applied to menus, buttons, backgrounds, and apps throughout your phone.

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One UI 4.1 Color Palette:

As soon as you apply a new wallpaper, you will get four different color combinations along with the system’s default theme. Each palette has 6 shades that apply to different parts of your device.

You can also apply this color palette theme to app icons if you desired to do so. However, it is only applicable to select Samsung and Google apps whereas, third-party apps will remain the same. Apart from these, all system applications get some sort of colors but it did not apply throughout.

One UI 5.0 Color Palette:

The worst thing about the One UI 4.1 color palette was that it didn’t apply to third-party app icons. One UI 5.0 has fixed it. The new software brings Dynamic Theming to more Samsung, Google, and other third-party applications so that when you apply the color palette to app icons, all applications will look similar.

Next, the company has also increased the Color Palette options from 4 to 16 so the customers can get more choices while choosing a perfect theme for their phone that syncs with the Lock screen or Home screen wallpaper. It now has two menus:

• Wallpaper colors: This option will show you 12 color palettes and each carries 6 different shades for a different element of your device.
• Basic colors: Inside, you will see 4 dual-color combinations along with 8 single colors that will best match your phone’s wallpaper.

If that’s not enough, Samsung also offers the ability to completely disable the Color Palette, in case you don’t like any of the themes.

One UI 5.0 vs One UI 4.1 – Samsung Color Palette:

The difference between Samsung’s One UI 4.1 Color Palette and One UI 5.0 Color Palette can be seen clearly. The new software offers more choices for the user interface theme as well as it now more effectively applies throughout the system and supports more apps like WhatsApp, Reddit, Signal, Linkedin, etc.