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5 Secret features of Samsung One UI 5.0 Gallery
Samsung Gallery is the one place on our Galaxy smartphone where all photos, videos, slo-mos, and GIFs are saved. The Korean tech giant offers a bunch of customization options in the Gallery app so you can edit, share, create groups, and more. Android 13-based One UI 5.0 brings a host of new features and improvements that make Galaxy smartphones productive, optimized, and secure, as well as an improved Samsung Gallery app.
The company added new options to Gallery add to make it useful and easier. However, the One UI 5.0 changelog does not mention new features for the gallery but you can see some new features after installing the latest update. Let’s see the secret features of the Samsung One UI 5.0 Gallery app.
Samsung One UI 5.0 Gallery New Features
Enhanced Stories
With One UI 5.0, the company added several new features to the Stories section. You don’t need to enable any option to create stories as it is now automatically created. Now, you can add stories to Favourites just need to press hear icon present on it.
In addition to this, you can manage story content, change story title, save story video, and delete and edit it. There are several amazing options to edit story videos.
Choose what to create
You can easily create the album through a few steps. Firstly, open the Samsung Gallery app >> tap on the Album section >> press Plus icon. Now, you can select any one options mentioned below.
- Album: Create an album just for you. It can’t be shared.
- Auto-Updating Album: Create an album that automatically updates to include pictures of people you select.
- Group: Create a group, then add albums so you can find them together.
- Shared album: Create an album you can share.
Select the album to show
After enabling this feature from Gallery settings, you can see a new option named ‘Select album to show‘ in the More options of the Albums section. By clicking on this option, you can see which albums will be shown in My Albums.
However, you can see the all albums by the View all option, which is present below the More option.
Merge Album
When you enable the merge option, albums with the same name will be shown as a single album. Whenever you open a merge album, a message appears that it is a merge album and it is created by adding the number of albums.
Shared Album Notification
Samsung One UI 5.0 Gallery app brings a new feature called Shared Album Notification. After enabling this option, you will get notified when peoples share albums, add new images/videos, and any new people join or leave Shared Album. When you enable the Shared album notification option, three options appear:
- Shared Albums: Get notified when people share albums with you or delete albums shared with you.
- New posts: Get notified when people add images and videos to shared albums
- Member updates: Get notified when people join or leave shared albums
Samsung revealed its Project Infinity, which aims to make your Galaxy devices safer against cyber threats. Android is vulnerable due to its open-source nature, making regular security updates necessary for your Galaxy phone’s security.
Project Infinity of Samsung is a classified operation, working on safeguarding Galaxy devices and users around the clock for safer operations. Samsung Newsroom has recently published a blog post, revealing insights from specialist meetings.
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Samsung’s Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) taskforce is a reconnaissance unit within Project Infinity along with the Red (RED), Blue (BLUE), and Purple (PURPLE) Teams, which go beyond lab conditions to identify real-world dangers.
- RED and BLUE perform proactive attack and defense functions, seeking out vulnerabilities and taking measures against them.
- PURPLE is a special operations unit that acts as both a sword and shield for specific critical areas.
It’s worth noting that Samsung has deployed RED, BLUE, and PURPLE teams in various countries including Vietnam, Poland, Ukraine and Brazil. CTI is dedicated to identifying potential threats and stopping hackers from taking control of your device.
“Once we spot these kinds of threats, we collaborate with developers and operators to lock everything down for preventing attacks,” said Ranger, a CTI member.
Samsung Security Updates
Earlier this year, Samsung announced it to support flagship Galaxy devices for seven years. The new policy applies to all flagship Galaxy devices launched after the Galaxy S24 series. It’s the longest software support offered by any mobile brand.
These updates mean customers can safely use their phones for longer. As cyber threats become more common than you think, security updates are much more crucial to safeguard your Galaxy from any potential threat of vulnerability.
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.