This is without a doubt the worst software update I've ever experienced. Straight up fucked my shit up

I hate that my music player is now relegated to a tiny nub at the bottom of the lock screen that defaults now to google ads for sports betting unless you turn it off.

Also my phone now randomly vibrates every so often, just gently enough to think it was imagined and I think it's to drain the battery faster to push people to buy a new phone. But that's just conspiracy from how garbage the rest of this update has been.

third-party android modifications*

my family's pixel devices, and mine running gos, don't have this. nor the cell bar style, nor the 'we have to advertise the wifi version so people feel good that bigger number = better' wifi icon style...

the default is just a battery icon, though I have it set on my phone to also show the percent alongside it. this hasn't changed in many years. blame your manufacturer and their skinning and modding.

I think most of the update is pretty okay (unpopular opinion: I kinda like the new battery icon), except for the notification panel, which they completely ruined.

It used to be that persistent notifications (which need to be there so apps like tasker and kde connect don't get killed) were neatly at the bottom. Now they're just randomly mixed in with the other notifications, so chats, emails, etc.

I AM STILL PISSED ABOUT THIS FORCED UPDATE. the second a linux phone is usable daily I will buy one. FUCK SAMSUNG

OneUI 7 is visually a steaming pile of shit. Real "we have iPhone at home" vibes throughout. Specifically for me what they've done with icons, why cant i have white or colored icons with dark mode?

Beta testers complained so much up to release how uncohesive everything is and Samsung constantly shut down feedback with "this doesn't meet our design goals". Surprise, now it hits general public and everyone still hates their goals. This won't ruin them, but it defintely makes me reconsider Samsung going forward.

Edit - yes I know there's third party solutions to most android problems, but shouldn't have to load apps and spend hours customizing to interface without vomiting.

For anyone on Samsung, I've also been fighting with with the OneUI changes, look into the GoodLock app from the Samsung App store, it's published by Samsung and helps you take (more) control over how attributes behave and act, along with changing things like the Lock Screen looks and what shows up and how. I can give more info if anyone wants or provide screenshots here if anyone would like

Here's a link to the app in their store https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock

Yeah I am sticking with my custom rom until the phone dies. Then probably getting a Sony phonr because those apparently have a no nonsense android on them.

Shitty Life Pro Tip, just keep your battery below 19% and they can't update.

taps head 😎

that's just samsung though, i'm on android 15 too and my battery looks like a battery

I hate the new top pull-down menus.

I miss the sideways swiping in the all apps. I manually changed it, but new apps have to manually be put in place. This new UI suuuuuuuuuuucks. I wish that I could change it back.

Edit: i thought this was a samsung sublemmy, I missed Lemmy shitpost, but im not deleting what i typed i feel like i spent a good half hour bitching about it and frankly feel more vindicated seeing others complain.

Overall negative and has me rethinking keeping with the Fold line given their price. If anyone has a Launcher to fix some of these issues or to restore voice text making calls, I'd appreciate it.

They should’ve just copied iOS and made it look like a little battery.

One UI 7 is the worst update I've ever suffered in my entire life.

Win7->10 wasn't this bad.

I genuinely feel for y'all not able to flash your own OS.

I bought a fairphone and have been running lineageOS on it.

Oh boy, can't wait to see this garbage on my Samsung Tab 9. My mom upgraded me from my dusty, way beyond eol Kindle Fire that I had, cause all I really did on it was watch YT and read/web browse, plus this model was on sale. Was excited, until I realized I couldn't custom ROM it like my precious Pixel.

Like another comment said, Samsung/One UI is truly the Apple of Android, and it's dogshit. So much bloat that I had to disable/delete, random UI changes that oversimplify/water down personality, stupid settings I will literally never use, etc.

The best I could get is a stock Android GSI, but I'm not sure if potential bugs and battery life issues would occur, and I don't want to root.

I hate the single page scroll app drawer. I enjoy being able to swipe up to toggle between home and the app drawer. If you keep the single page scrolling drawer, you can't swipe up to get back to home. You can change this and revert to pages like we had before, but for some unholy stupid fucking reason, you can't sort it alphabetically. Like, really? I've had to manually reposition all of my apps, and for some reason the toggle seems to be pretty janky to settle an app into the place you want it, so insanely annoying. Add alphabetical sorting back, come on. Basic shit.

Laughs at you in Galaxy S10

Hey at least it shows the battery percentage unlike the old default option!

I just got a Samsung phone and haven't seen anything besides the current version and for me it's fine.

It's sooo terrible. I updated my phone not realizing it was going to be such a big change & it kind of ruined my day.

I'd love to go with a different OS, but nothing has stylus support for writing and note taking :/

Oh fuck, I hate this too. Fucked up the video player and a bunch of my settings as well. Why is everything so round!? Why did they fuck up my clock widget SO BAD!??

Try custom ROMs if you can (this is android 14 BTW)

It looks almost exactly like the apple one