Samsung has always been at the forefront when it came to having features built-into the UI. It's still quite convoluted, however, and you'll often need to use the search function to find things in here. The new UI also comes with a new Settings app, which has a simplified structure and the top level menu items list some of the options contained within to make things easy to find. Unfortunately, Samsung has buried the brightness slider in the second level so you have to swipe down twice to adjust the brightness whereas previously you could just swipe once.Īdditionally, Samsung continues to use a tiny Clear all button that requires way too much precision on the user's part to touch it without hitting the notification below which it appears. Being a dual SIM phone, you also get options to choose your default SIM for calling, texting and data but you can't change anything from here and tapping any of these opens the Settings app. The notification shade has also been improved with a row of toggles that does not slide horizontally as before and can be expanded by swiping down again. When you have the apps sorted alphabetically, the new apps that you download no longer go to the end of the grid but instead fall into place in accordance with the alphabetical sequence. ![]() You can choose to arrange the icons in alphabetical order, which doesn't upset your folders. You get folder support and by default most of the apps are grouped together in some folders. The app drawer still has the sliding pane design unlike the vertical scrolling in the Pixel launcher. The good thing is this can be disabled and you can just have the default icon shapes for every app if that's how you prefer them. You can press and hold on the icons to get a small popup but instead of having some interesting app specific options such as on the Pixel launcher or 3D Touch on iOS, you just get the options to uninstall the app or to put it to sleep.īy default, all the icons have a square border around them, something Samsung picked up from the Chinese OEMs. The C9 Pro comes with 5x5 layout by default for the icons, which makes great use of the available screen space. The leftmost homescreen is still taken over by Flipboard Briefing but that can easily be disabled. Starting with the launcher, we see that Samsung is still very much committed to the homescreen + app drawer layout, complete with the app drawer button in the corner that is obligatory for Samsung phones. ![]() It first debuted on the ill-fated Galaxy Note7 and featured a lot of minor UI improvements all around over the previous version. The Galaxy C9 Pro runs on the latest iteration of Samsung's TouchWiz UI based on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
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