Samsung to Roll Out One UI 7 in Early April

Samsung announced today that it will begin rolling out its Android 15-based One UI 7 to its latest flagships starting on April 7. Oddly, it never mentions the term “Android” once in this announcement or on its One UI product page.

“The official rollout of One UI 7 will start April 7, bringing a bold new design for greater personalization and control to the user experience,” the Samsung announcement explains. “One UI 7 introduces new interface built for AI, helping users interact with their Galaxy devices more naturally than ever before. The update will be available starting with the Galaxy S24 series, Galaxy Z Fold6, and Z Flip6, [before] gradually rolling out to more Galaxy smartphones and tablets.”

One UI 7 is the newest version of the user interface “skin” that Samsung uses on its Android-powered smartphones and other devices. It features what Samsung calls “a simple, impactful and emotive design” that is more streamlined than before, with a redesigned home screen and widgets, and a new Now Bar for real-time updates. In short, it resembles Apple’s iOS quite a bit.

But Samsung is also heavily pushing its AI capabilities, with One UI 7 bringing features like AI Select (context-specific options), Writing Assist, Drawing Assist, Audio Eraser, and Natural language search in Settings in addition to the Google Gemini capabilities built in to the underlying OS. Now, Samsung customers can long-press their phone’s side button to evoke Gemini instead of its lackluster Bixby. (Some features are device-specific.)

“Integrating leading AI agents with multimodal capabilities into every touch point of the interface, One UI 7 marks a significant leap forward in creating a new kind of mobile experience where every interaction feels more intuitive than ever before,” Samsung says.

You can learn more on the Samsung website.