One UI 6.0 in Action: 7 New Features!

The first beta of the new OneUI 6 update based on Android 14 is here and this brings a lot of new features, some major changes. And some of them I like, some of them I don’t. But you know what? Let's not waste any more time. Let me show you the best OneUI features in action. So, this is OneUI 6, and the first thing you will notice here is the new widgets. So, there’s a couple of new weather widgets. The weather insights widget shows you the temperature along with more details like chance of rain

or thunderstorms. There is also this Dynamic widget which also has this cool new animation, which changes according to the weather, obviously. This is cool but the more useful new widget here is the custom camera widget. This lets you open up a specific camera mode directly from the home screen. I can set it to open the rear or the front camera and I can choose from different modes, be it portrait, video, pro mode, you get the idea. I also like that you can customize the widget’s name and the b

ackground. And this is what the widget looks like and it works perfectly. I also like that the Smart Suggestions widget is now more customizable and you can even exclude apps from this widget right here. New widgets apart, OneUI 6 brings a number of visual changes. The biggest one is obviously the new quick settings. This is what the new Quick Settings looks like compared to Quick Settings on OneUI 5. Now, I am not a fan of OneUI losing its one handed UI design here, which made it so good but ya

, OneUI 6 makes things cleaner. WiFi and Bluetooth are separated and I like that tapping on the icon turns them off, and tapping on the text expands the WiFi or Bluetooth Settings right here. Anyway, the display controls are also separated at the bottom, be it brightness, the eye comfort mode or dark mode. The edit page has also changed, and there’s one handy option here. I am talking about “Quick Settings Instant Access”. This can be turned on and now, when I swipe from the top right corner, it

directly opens up the quick settings page, similar to iOS and MIUI. Another change I noticed here is that when you turn on the Airplane mode, and then turn on say Bluetooth, OneUI 6 remembers it. So, when I turn on Airplane Mode the next time, it will keep Bluetooth turned on. Really cool. Anyway, the media player in the notification shade also has this cool waves animation when the music is playing. Also, OneUI 6 has a new default font that looks more modern. The Settings app has a few tweaks.

It shows you the profile picture a little bigger now, and the battery page is now a dedicated page in the Settings, and it too has a new graph and some options have been rearranged. OneUI 6 also brings updated emojis, although I have never been a fan of Samsung emojis. Moving on, OneUI has always had a very customizable lockscreen and OneUI 6 is obviously making things better. See, in OneUI 5, you could resize the clock but there was no way to move around the clock. In OneUI 6, you can resize t

he clock and you can move it around like this and set it wherever you want. That’s not all. There are also new font styles for the clock and there’s also a new clock style. OneUI 6 also brings some big camera changes and new features. First of all, the camera UI has changed for the better. You now get an option right here to choose from 12MP or 50MP or 200MP. There’s also a new icon for Super Steady Mode, and I like this new video resolution UI a lot more. This is cleaner and easier to use. Now,

coming to the new features, there’s an advanced intelligence options page, which lets you choose between 3 picture quality options. Maximum is obviously for the best picture quality with a little shutter lag. Minimum is if you want to take shots quickly without any shutter lag, but you can compromise on the quality. Medium is kind of the best of both worlds. Honestly, there is quite a difference in speed in the maximum and minimum quality options. There is also the Auto FPS option which now has

more options, and the watermark style has now more customization in terms of date and time styles. The OneUI 6 Gallery app is also better. It now has this info icon when you open a photo or video and this shows you all the details along with a few edit suggestions right here. As you can see, there’s remaster, portrait effect and object eraser. And I can hit remaster and it starts. That’s it. I can now see the before and after, zoom in for better comparison. The editing UI has also changed. It h

as the most useful features in the first button itself instead in a 3 dot menu button. It also has an undo and redo button right here, which is very useful. You can now copy edits from one photo and apply to another photo like this. Nice! OneUI 6 also brings a couple of new, very useful privacy features. So, number one is Auto Blocker, which is turned off by default, but you can turn it on and it will make sure to block apps from unauthorized sources, it will run security checks in the apps in y

our phone and it will block commands via ADB. This will also block images and messages that might be malicious and block software updates via USB. This I think is very useful, especially for people who are not very tech savvy and manage to install apps with those full screen ads. So, ya. Kuddos to Samsung for this. That's not all. I also saw this new option in OneUI 6 that alerts when an AirTag or say a Samsung SmartTag is detected travelling with you. You can even do a manual scan right here. S

o, smart select is one of the most underrated features in OneUI and with OneUI 6, when you are using it to capture a partial screenshot, it shows you the aspect ratio, so you can take a screenshot in 16:9 or 4:3. Whatever. It even shows you a magnifier, so that you can capture the edges perfectly. This is very cool, but that’s not all. You can still pin it, but now, you can even extract text from it, or just drag and drop it like this. So, those were the big changes and new features in OneUI 6 b

ut I want to know from you. Which is your favorite new OneUI 6 feature? And, which is that one feature that One UI is still missing? Comment below! Thanks for watching.