One UI 5.1
Samsung One UI 5.1
On February 15, Samsung officially introduced the One UI 5.1 which debuted with the Galaxy S23 series during Unpacked 2023. The company has already started delivering this new software through an OTA update and later revealed the One UI 5.1 Roadmap for Galaxy devices.
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The One UI 5.0 started to roll out for the Galaxy S22 series on October 24 and expanded to several older flagship devices on November 7. Samsung did the same with One UI 5.1, on February 13, it arrived as an early Valentine’s day gift for the Galaxy S22, S21, and S20 series alongside the Z Fold/Flip 4 and Fold/Flip 3.
One UI 5.1 is available for
- Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4
- Galaxy S22, S22 Plus and S22 Ultra
- Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3
- Galaxy S21, S21 Plus and S21 Ultra
- Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra – Feb. 18
- Galaxy Z Fold 2 5G – Feb. 21
- Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra
- Galaxy S21 FE and S20 FE 5G
- Galaxy Z Flip – Feb. 27
- Galaxy Tab S8 series
- Galaxy Tab S7 series
Non-flagship Galaxy devices:
- Galaxy A73, A53, A33 and A23- Feb. 20
- Galaxy M53, M33 – Feb. 25
- Galaxy A23 – Feb. 27
- Galaxy F62 – Mar. 1
- Galaxy M62, M52 – Mar. 1st week
- Galaxy A52s – Mar. 2
- Galaxy Quantum 2 – Mar. 2
- Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7 Plus
- Galaxy A71 and A51 – Mar. 8
- Galaxy S10 Lite – Mar. 7
- Galaxy A72, A52 and A32 – Mar. 9
- Galaxy A13 – Mar. 14
- Galaxy A03s – Mar. 17
How to update
Head towards the Settings menu, tap the Software update tab, followed by Download and install. Let your device connect to Samsung’s software server and find out the new build. If a new build is available for your device and CSC, follow the on-screen instructions and enjoy!
One UI 5.1 Roadmap
February 15 to February 21
- Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3
- Galaxy Tab S8, S8+, S8 Ultra
- Galaxy A73 5G, A53 5G, A33 5G
February 22 to February 28
- Galaxy A72, Galaxy A82 5G, Galaxy A52s 5G, Galaxy A52 5G, Galaxy A52
- Galaxy Tab S7 FE, Galaxy Tab S7+, Galaxy Tab S7
- Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy Z Flip
- Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra
March 1 to March 7
- Galaxy A71 5G and Galaxy A71
- Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A51
- Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
One UI 5.1 Features
Samsung Galaxy devices refresh the user experience with One UI 5.1, while it focuses on the key aspects including:
- Camera and Gallery
- Multitasking
- Modes and Routines
- Weather
- Samsung Internet
To begin with, the Samsung Galaxy devices will nurture a new in-camera effect, as you can now change the color tone of selfies. Search in the Gallery app is getting better because it can search for more than one person or subject.
The remastering feature is special on its own and One UI 5.1 brings new enhancements to remove background and even GIFs along with improved previews to master a perfect remastering.
Into the gallery, your Galaxy phone will make it easier to share albums with family. For enthusiasts, the camera photograph information will turn the page with the new addition of the device name, location, storage location, and more in a brand-new layout.
One UI 5.1 makes it easier for you to maximize or minimize windows without opening options. A split screen will help you to get the recent apps at an instance. Samsung Dex will also optimize the way interact with Samsung Dex.
Another interesting addition comes into mode and routines, which sets a different wallpaper based on your current modes such as work, exercising, and more. The Weather app consists of new colors to show how the temperature change throughout the day.
An hourly graph now shows how much precipitation has fallen at different times of the day. Over the past year, Samsung has optimized Samsung Internet to the best of its capabilities. One UI 5.1 empowers this app with a massive upgrade of the “Continues browsing on another device” feature.
Talking about “New” you can resume browsing a webpage from one Galaxy device to another. Adding further, the search now includes the name of bookmark folders and tab groups. That’s not it, Samsung Galaxy handset will get additional changes such as the most discussed battery widget.
By far, the most discussed feature on the internet debuted with One UI 5.1 and it will let you check the battery level of your devices right from your phone’s home screen. You can see how much battery is left on your Galaxy phone, Buds, Watch, and other smart devices.
Best in practice, Samsung account suggestions will appear at the top of the Settings screen to help you share, connect and enhance your experience across your Galaxy devices. The smart suggestions widget now recommends Spotify tracks and playlists based on your current activity.
Lastly, you can now choose where to save screenshots and screen recordings. There’s a long list of features, additions, optimizations, improvements, and enhancements for these smartphones and you should grab the One UI 5.1 for your Galaxy smartphone as soon as it arrives.
One UI 5.1 Changelog
Camera and Gallery
Quickly change the color tone for selfies
It’s easier to change the color tone of your selfies using the Effects button at the top of the screen.
Discover Expert RAW
Expert RAW lets you take high-quality shots, perfect for those who want to have full control and edit photos later. Expert RAW is now easier to access from the More menu in Camera.
More powerful search
You can now search your Gallery for more than one person or subject at the same time. You can even search for people without tagging their names just by tapping their faces.
Enhanced image remastering
Remastering does more to make your pictures look great by removing shadows and reflections. You can also remaster GIFs for better resolution and clarity. Preview has also been improved to make it easier to compare the original picture with the remaster.
Create a shared family album
It’s easier than ever to share pictures with your family. Gallery will recommend pictures to add to your shared family album by recognizing the faces of your family members. You get 5 GB of storage for each family member (up to 6 people).
Revamped info display
When you swipe up while viewing a picture or video in your Gallery, you can see when and where the picture was taken, which device took the picture, where the picture is stored, and more. Now with a simpler layout.
Multitasking
Easily minimize or switch to full screen
You can now minimize or maximize an app window without going to the options menu. Just drag one of the corners.
Access your most used apps in split screen
When you start a split-screen view, the apps you use most often will be shown below your recently used apps to help you find the apps you need faster.
Improved multitasking in DeX
In split-screen view, you can now drag the divider in the center of the screen to resize both windows. You can also snap a window to one of the corners to make it fill a quarter of the screen.
Modes and Routines
Change wallpapers based on your mode
Set a different wallpaper based on your current activity. Choose one wallpaper for work, one for exercising, and more.
More actions for routines
New actions let you control Quick Share and Touch sensitivity, change your ringtone, and change your font style.
Weather
Quick access to useful information
Check severe weather alerts, daily weather summaries, and sunrise/sunset times at the top of the Weather app. The temperature graph now uses colors to show how the temperature changes throughout the day.
Hourly precipitation graph
An hourly graph now shows how much precipitation has fallen at different times of the day.
Summary on Weather widget
A brief summary of the current weather conditions now appears on the weather widget to let you know if it’s sunny, cloudy, raining, or snowing.
Samsung Internet
Continue browsing on another device
If you’re browsing the web on one Galaxy phone or tablet and later open the Internet app on another Galaxy device signed in to the same Samsung account, a button will appear that lets you open the last webpage you were viewing on the other device.
Improved search
Your searches now include the names of bookmark folders and tab groups. Improved search logic lets you find what you’re looking for even if something isn’t spelled correctly.
Additional changes
Check the battery level of your devices
The new Battery widget lets you check the battery level of your devices, right from the Home screen. You can see how much battery is left on your phone, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch, S Pen, and other supported devices.
Use up to 3 emojis in AR Emoji Camera
Take fun pictures and videos with your friends in Mask mode. You can assign a different emoji to each person’s face.
Settings suggestions
While signed in to your Samsung account, suggestions will appear at the top of the Settings screen to help you share, connect, and enhance your experience across your Galaxy devices.
Spotify suggestions
The Smart suggestions widget now recommends Spotify tracks and playlists based on your current activity. Get the perfect tunes for driving, exercising, and more. To get suggestions, you need to sign in to a Spotify account in the latest version of the Spotify app.
Choose where to save screenshots and screen recordings
You can now change the folder where screenshots and screen recordings are saved.
One UI 5.1 is Samsung’s most customizable and feature-rich software iteration to date. Home Screen, which is the second door of your phone’s user interface can be incredibly personalized in Samsung Galaxy devices, courtesy of the One UI 5.1 software.
One UI 5.1 Home Screen Customization
In order to access customization tools, you will be needing to tap and hold on the home screen.
Wallpaper and style
This section allows you to change the home screen and lock screen wallpaper with categories including Featured, Gallery (custom), Graphical, Colors, Wallpaper services (Dynamic Lock screen, Samsung Global Goals), and Downloaded from the Galaxy Themes app.
The Color Palette is another useful feature, which allows you to optimize the entire user interface by picking up a dominant color from the home/lock screen. There’s a large directory of color combinations, and if you don’t wanna use the Color palette feature, it can be disabled as well.
Themed app icons and Dark mode optimization:
Similar to user interface elements, you can also turn the color of app icons into the already applied color palette for a more uniform appearance. Last but not least, there’s a pretty useful feature that allows you to dim the wallpaper’s brightness when the Dark mode is on.
Themes
One UI 5.1’s Themes tool lets you download additional personalization stuff from the Galaxy Themes app. In addition to system Themes, you can download Wallpapers, Icons, and AOD (Always On Display) themes from both paid and free categories.
Widgets
Samsung is making the Widgets section epic with each One UI iteration. Dynamic Widget became the spotlight of One UI 5, and Samsung further added more new options such as Battery Status Widget, Dynamic Weather Widget, Contacts Widget, and Spotify Suggestions widget.
One UI’s Widget section introduces both pre-installed and apps-derived widget options including additional choices. Using the widgets feature, you can get important tasks done on the home screen itself, with no need to access and open the app and settings.
Home screen settings
This section consists of basic customization options so you make it your dream home screen. There are plenty of basic yet useful functions, allowing you to decide screen layout, grid style, folder, minus one page, auto-rotation and so on. You can check the list below:
- Home screen layout
- Home and Apps screens
- Home screen only
- Home screen grid
- 4×5 | 4×6 | 5×5 | 5×6 | 4×5
- Apps screen grid
- 4×5 | 4×6 | 5×5 | 5×6 | 4×5
- Folder grid
- 3×4 | 4×4
- Add media page to Home screen
- Google Discover
- Samsung Free
- Show Apps screen button on Home screen
- Lock Home screen layout
- Add new apps to Home screen
- Hide apps on Home and Apps screens
- App icon badges
- Number
- Dot
- Swipe down for notification panel
- Rotate to landscape mode
You can further extend the One UI 5.1 home screen customization experience with Good Lock apps.
One UI 5.1 update further enhances the Android 13 experience for Galaxy devices compared to One UI 5.0. One UI 5.1 update not only brings meaningful improvements but also improves the usability of Samsung Tablets.
The new One UI version comes with remarkable features and enhancements to Camera, Gallery, Samsung Dex, multitasking, Widgets, and more. Through this post, you can see what the Android 13-based One UI 5.1 software will look like on a Samsung tab.
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Samsung One UI 5.1 Features for Galaxy Tablets
Selfie Camera Color tone option
It’s easier to change the color tone of your selfies using the Effects button.
Widgets
With One UI 5.1, the company added a Battery widget that lets you check the battery level of your Galaxy devices. Right from the Home screen, you can see how much battery is left on your phone, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch, and other supported devices.
Samsung Weather Widget is also improved, you can now check Daily weather summary, forecast, hourly precipitation, severe weather alert, and other information.
AR Zone – Use multiple emojis in AR Emoji camera
You can now add a second AR Emoji in a single sticker as well as customize each emoji and then combine them as you prefer.
Samsung Internet
Continue to browse Samsung Internet from another device when both devices are signed into the same Samsung account. Sync the data in Settings > Samsung account > Sync settings > Enable “Samsung Internet”.
You will receive a Samsung Internet pop-up on the screen on your second device > Tap to continue browsing.
Advanced Multitasking
Easily minimize or switch to full screen
In Pop-Up View, you can now adjust the window size by dragging the window edges in any direction.
Easier access to the most used apps in split screen view
You’ll see categories for Recent apps and Most used apps for split screen view, allowing you to quickly select apps for Split Screen.
Expanded Multi-Control between Galaxy Book and phone
Share the mouse, keyboard or trackpad of your Galaxy Book not only with your Galaxy tablet but also with your Galaxy phone. You can copy and paste text, and drag and drop images from one device to another seamlessly — almost like you’re using the same device.
Enhanced Remastering
Now, the Remastering feature withdraws shadows and reflections automatically to make your pictures look great. You can also remaster GIFs for better resolution and clarity.
Extract text from any image or screen
Extract text using Samsung Keyboard, Internet, Gallery, or whenever you take a screenshot. Modify and paste the result into a message, email, or document instead of typing.
This feature is also available if you pause a video with text information on the screen. Select the text scan icon to extract the text copy into emails, contacts, the internet, and more.
Simpler info display
When you select the details of a photo or video, you can see both the image and the details at the same time in landscape mode. Select an image or video from Gallery > Select three dots for more options > Select details > Rotate the device to landscape mode.
Stories New Look
Stories that are automatically created in your Gallery are renewed with an interactive slideshow view. Just tap or swipe to move between photos and videos in your Stories.
Wallpaper Video
You can select a video clip to use as your wallpaper as well as edit the best part recommendation also available. Open Wallpaper > Select a video from your Gallery > Trim recommends the best moment (15 seconds max).
Samsung has pushed the One UI 5.1 update for Galaxy A32 4G and Galaxy A03s smartphones. The major update brings a slew of new features and improvements to provide the next level of Galaxy experience.
One UI 5.1 update for Samsung Galaxy A32 4G is rolling out in Turkey with One UI build version A325FXXU3DWB8 while Galaxy A03s has received this major update in Brazil with firmware A037MUBU3CWB2.
In addition to several One UI 5.1 features, the update installs the Android security patch released in February 2023 to amplify the security of the device.
Samsung’s February 2023 security patch fixes four dozen vulnerabilities that were harming the files and data saved on the phone. These include 47 CVEs from Google’s Android OS and 7 SVEs from Samsung’s One UI software.
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One UI 5.1 Features
Based on Android 13, the One UI 5.1 update comes with a bundle of new features and enhancements over One UI 5.0. The Gallery app is receiving a common family album for easier sharing, a more convenient information display in horizontal view, more effective searches, and more.
Meanwhile, the Samsung Widget section is also getting three major changes. The new Battery Widget shows your phone and connected device battery on the home screen, the Dynamic Weather Widget provides a weather summary, and the improved Smart Suggestion Widget now recommends you a Spotify playlist.
Moving ahead, this One UI version further brings new features for pop-up view and split-screen view features for easier multitasking, Bixby Text Call in the English language, Continue using app on other devices feature support for Samsung Internet, the ability to add Modes-based wallpapers, and more.