Samsung entered into a unique yet comprehensive on-screen revolution—the One UI, unfolding its next-generation software interface that significantly helped the company to achieve the goal of attaining the best possible software experience for its entire Galaxy ecosystem. Meanwhile, the One UI era started years ago and is still continuing to streamline the Galaxy experience via more forceful yet enhanced innovation. So lets talk about Samsung One UI Evolution form One UI 1 to One UI 6.
Here’s the entire journey of Samsung One UI Evolution
With growing innovation and techniques, Samsung has aligned to make its One UI even more sophisticated, and that’s the reason why its One UI is considered the most simple and customizable UI in order to offer a more streamlined software experience to the Galaxy users.
One UI 1
Samsung’s One UI journey begins with its first and initial generation, the One UI 1, which was introduced with Android 9 Pie. It is built with the most streamlined structure that allows users to focus on what matters most to them. In other words, this One UI iteration simply creates the most subtle, balanced, and visually comfortable aesthetics, integrates night mode, and provides more spacious design changes. Despite these features, the most prominent one was the addition of the carefully refined One UI design with rounded corners for app icons and blocks, focusing on its beauty and consistency.
Note One UI x.1 and One UI x.1.1: Samsung usually follows a significant pattern where the company offers some more enhanced features and other impressive changes to the eligible devices via One UI x.1 and One UI x.1.1. However, the UI x.1 build is for every eligible Galaxy phone that has received the major One UI build, while the One UI x.1.1 build is only exclusive to the Galaxy Z foldables and tablets.
One UI 2
There comes the next One UI iteration, the One UI 2 alongside Android 10. This version significantly introduced some elegant features, like the pop-ups have been minimized, allowing notifications to take up as little space as possible, expanded dark mode to the home screen, lock screen became even smarter where the texts automatically adjust the color of the lock screen background, focus mode, and plenty of other tools for managing digital wellbeing.
This version was further followed by One UI 2.x, which significantly upgraded the interface with new styles, prioritizing simplicity as the prime factor. This build introduced new tools like Quick Share and Samsung DeX, mirroring the Galaxy device to a compatible PC or Smart TV.
One UI 3
One UI 3 was the next One UI upgrade that was made available with Android 11 OS on the Galaxy S20 lineup, reinforcing an exciting new design, enhanced everyday features, and deep customizations. One UI 3 not only looked different, it felt different as well. Smoother motion effects and animations, clean and stylish home screen UI, everyday simplicity, making the camera even more powerful via an improved AI-based zoom, and other relevant and further extended customizations for the Galaxy phone, like new ways to customize the Quick Panel according to your preference, widgets, AOD on the lock screen, and more.
Accompanied by the next One UI 3.1, Samsung further refined the foldable experience to get even better. This version came alongside Android 11 on the Galaxy Z Fold 2, and it brought about features such as easier and enhanced multitasking via multi-active windows, gestures for quick accessibility on both the cover and main screen, flex mode in the camera, and a categorized notification panel.
One UI 4
Samsung’s next One UI iteration—the One UI 4, which was launched with Android 12 on the Galaxy S21 series, including the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra—significantly brought more customizations, updated privacy settings, and more. It brought about some essential features to security factors with the latest privacy aspects and an easier and smoother connectivity experience while using third-party apps and services.
Meanwhile, the next and upgraded OneUI 4.1.1 eventually got some minor changes that included night mode portraits and a smart calendar app. Also, seamlessly optimized by large-screen Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 4/Flip 4, Galaxy Tab S6, Tab S7, and Tab S8 series.
One UI 5
Samsung’s next One UI generation—the One UI 5—became even more personal with much innovative hardware and intuitive software experience for the Galaxy users. It introduces a new Bixby Text Call feature, modes and routines to trigger everyday exercise sequences of the working day, a new and fresh look, redefined notifications, next-level and more diverse customizations directly within the lock screen, a neat and tidy home screen via new stacked widgets, smart suggestions for widgets, convenient safety and privacy features, and much more.
Further, the One UI 5.1 was introduced that came alongside the Galaxy S23 series, followed by the Galaxy S23 series and other eligible models, including Galaxy Z foldables. It brought enhanced photo remaster, a new and dynamic weather widget, smart suggestion widget integration within Spotify, and multi-control expansion throughout the Galaxy ecosystem.
In addition, for a more enhanced and seamless experience, the One UI 5.1.1 build was released on Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5, with further expanding it to Galaxy Z Fold 4/Flip 4 and other eligible models. This build packs features like Flex Mode panel, multi-window, hidden pop-up, pop-up view to multi-window, two-handed drag and drop, and more.
One UI 6
The next One UI iteration that featured Galaxy phones and tablets with Android 14 is One UI 6. This build allows users to effortlessly personalize the everyday experience, bringing more effective productivity features all while keeping users’s data safe and secure. This was a really incredible One UI upgrade, as this brought about several new AI-focused features added with the latest Galaxy AI, out of the box. This involved Circle to Search, Live Translation, Interpreter, summarize and translate web pages, and more.
These Galaxy AI features got more enhanced when the next One UI 6.1 build was introduced on the recent flagship Galaxy S24 series. This included Circle to Search, Chat Assistant, Interpreter, Live Translate, Note Assistant, Transcript Assistant, and more.
The more upgraded One UI 6.1.1 update came on Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6, introduced more impressive and new enhancements to the existing Galaxy AI features in order to improve their utility and to provide a more enhanced experience to the users. This version brought about some new exclusive features as well; they are Sketch to Image and creating unique portraits.
One UI 7
Samsung could launch its next and latest One UI iteration, One UI 7 (one UI 7 beta), anytime soon, in a few weeks, while the current Galaxy S24 series, including the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra models, will be the first to receive the newest build as One UI 7 Beta.
Undoubtedly, the new One UI 7 will be the next-gen yet biggest One UI update that will offer the entire Galaxy audience a smooth, redefined, and incredible experience via some exceptional features and changes. Meanwhile, the company has significantly delayed the OneUI 7 beta release to offer a smooth and bug-free experience to the users.
Also, with the One UI 7 internal testing recently spotted for the Galaxy S24 on the official server, the implementation of the beta launch is now inching closer. Galaxy fans could expect the One UI 7 stable release somewhere in the month of November this year.
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