3 things that I love in Beta UI 8, and one thing I hate

When I woke up yesterday morning, I didn’t expect ONE UI 8 Beta to wait for me on Galaxy S25. However, this is exactly what happened. So, with my coffee in one hand and my S25 in the other, I spent on Wednesday morning download the latest Tamsung.

One user interface 8 is hardly a big update as in user interface 7, but this does not mean that there are no important new features. During the 24 hours I was using the trial version, I found a handful of very great changes.

Here are some things that I love in ONE 8, as well as one thing I hate.

Without a doubt, my favorite new feature in One UI 8 Beta is the new screen option 90:10 for multiple tasks. This is technically Android 16 feature instead of something for user interface 8, but since it is not present in the Android 16 QPR1 experimental version, it is the first time that we face practical experience.

One UI 7 already provides a lot of freedom for how you want to divide two applications that you run at one time, although the farthest that you can go to is a division of 70:30. This is not terrible, but it can still make some applications feel anxious and difficult to move.

Through the new 90:10 option in one user interface, you can now run one of your apps in a full-screen view, while your other app is hidden as small pieces at the top or below the screen-you can quickly change this application to the full screen display only by eavesdrop on it.

This is almost identical to how open fabric on OnePlus phones, and I cannot be happier. Now, I can use one app without compromising its user interface with only another application. It is my favorite way to use multitasking screen divided on Android, and I am now happy with its presence on Samsung phones with one user interface.

Over the past few months, Google’s tasks have been a reminder and reminder application. I don’t see the change any time soon, but the new Samsung reminding application in the user interface 8 is tempted by me.

Samsung fully repaired the application page, as the most important change was to add new categories on top. Previously, one of the user interface showed 7 dedicated reminder categories at the top, while categories such as today, scheduled, important and place were placed in a side menu. Now, all these things are introduced and medium in the upper part of the reminder, which allows you to immediately know the number of reminders in each of these categories.

The user interface is to add a better new reminder as well. There are more reminder options, add a much simpler reminder time, and the user interface is also improved. In addition, if you are using the Samsung Calendar app, you can now create a new reminder from there. It is a lot of smaller modifications, but I think it is all gathering to make the Samsung reminder of a much more enjoyable experience than it was.

As a person who does not live in the depths of the Samsung ecosystem, it is likely that the broader availability of Google’s tasks is currently. However, this is a big update on the Samsung part, and I hope Google will stimulate the payment of similar attention to the tasks.

This is a relatively simple change compared to multi -task and reminder updates, but it still appreciates it. If you are running the ONE 8 Beta and shared something through fast participation, you will notice that there is now a completely new interface.

In one user interface 7, take advantage of the quick post from the fast settings only view a pop -up menu to change who can share files with you. However, in one user interface 8, clicking on the same switch switching now to a new interface is divided into specialized pages and sending pages. In addition, from the transmission page, you can select the files you want to share there, instead of having to do this through the usual participation list in Android.

The technology behind the fast participation is great, but its presence facing the user on Android has always lacking. This is an enormous step in the right direction, and I think frankly it will make me use a quick share often.

This is something that we expect to get all Android phones at the end, but if you want to try it now, you will only find it in Beta One UI 8.

In my limited time with One UI 8 Beta, I did not find anything completely broken or changed worse. If there is anything, this is very similar to user interface 7, only with some additional features and a little additional polishing.

If this is the case, what does the user interface 8 hate? This is not here.

One of the biggest changes in Android 16 is the new Mateial 3 design from Google. After playing with her in Beta Android 16 QPR1, I feel overwhelmed with how she comes. Android makes you feel life and respond in a way that has been working for Google since Android 12, but this vision seems to be 100 % finally achieved in Android 16.

Whether it is beautiful animation with notification cards or modern applications page, wonderful user interface elements, or reverses on the interface, none of these elements from Android 16 QPR1 at one user interface 8 8. And if you ask me, it is not almost the same because of this.

To be clear, nothing of this is sudden. Samsung has its own distinctive software identity with one user interface, and we knew that the company will not abandon it in favor of what Google cooks with Mateial 3 Expressive. However, now that you have faced the quality of the new Google design language, I lack it in a single user interface.

Hot on the wake of revolutionary update like user interface 7, I can see some people who look at one user interface 8 and find it a bit boring. But this was always the case. Samsung did not offer us two consecutive updates to this range. Instead, user interface 8 is an evolution of what Samsung has started with user interface 7, and if you ask me, this update (almost) will be everything that this update should have.

Will it be better with expressive materials? definitely. But even without that, I am happy to see where Samsung is heading with the 8 user interface.