Widgets: Here’s everything new in Samsung One UI 7.0

Samsung continues to evolve the One UI home screen, increasing visibility for app icons, folders, and widgets, these home screen elements are heavily focused in One UI 7.0. However, this new software is heavily invested in widgets and made them look better than ever.

The concept of widgets is simple, show information about an app on the home screen without opening the app first. These widgets contain different labels, icons, or action buttons that could take you to the most used features.

These widget advancements only happened in the past few years but Samsung added its own touch to take widgets two steps further in the competition. The newer versions allow you to change widget sizes and shapes for broader home screen personalization.

One UI 5 and 6 has the most intuitive widgets with plenty of options. So, the experience with these two software was also top-notch but One UI 7.0 has more to offer.

New Look

Samsung has redesigned widgets and it’s optimized for the home screen. These come with better size management and shape and you can resize them with increased touch responsiveness.

For example, the Samsung Internet widget is now taller and less wider, while fully utilizing the space required to show the options and not wasting screen space.

Samsung has done the same thing with all of the new widgets without sacrificing the home screen space while improving visibility. Look at the difference between the 4×1 layout below.

Samsung One UI 6 and 7.0 comparison

One of the prominent changes is the smoothness, the tap-and-hold operations will show adaptive animations rather than rigid. This animation effect is all over the widgets section when you initiate resize. There, new widgets flex new improvements at full pace. These changes will be more visible to One UI 5.0 and 6.0 users compared to new ones.

Widgets Settings and Stack

No major changes are made to the widget settings except for some shuffling in the text and reorganizing on-screen options. Such as adding a new One UI 7.0 style slider and text effects. Similarly, the widget stacking remains unchanged as well.

Widgets Area

Samsung has redesigned the widgets menu for you, as soon as you open the widgets. The section will greet you with a more organized recommendation area, followed by the widgets groups. As usual, you can search widgets via the search bar using the keyboard or voice input.

Samsung One UI 7.0 Widgets

New widgets

Last but not least, Samsung has brought new variations of its popular widgets with One UI 7.0. Here are a few examples.

• Battery – This widget is redesigned and comes with new elements, highlighting device icons, battery numbers and levels. The circle style has removed the 4×1 layout and brought three new options. The battery list widget also brings two redesigned widgets.
• Calendar – Countdown is specially optimized with a theme and three widgets, month and today are separate with their own versions and added upcoming events.
• Clock – The clock app is another section with a complete redesign offering new Alarm, Analog, Digital and Dual clock
• Gallery – Images and Stories has three new gallery widgets of different sizes and appearances.
• Health – Health is also redefined with widgets for steps, sleep, energy score, and daily activity. These were limited prior to One UI 7.0.

Samsung One UI 7.0 Widgets

These are just key examples added to the widget area, there are more of these coming with One UI 7 for you to explore.

Conclusion

These improvements enhance user interface, visibility, and accessibility to all widgets in One UI 7.0 and it was the right decision to revamp this key feature to align new changes for a major upgrade.