What do you think of the S23 OneUI 7/Android 15 beta?

[Inkdej]

Personally, I find it very frustrating that Samsung split the combined notification/quick tiles into two separate swipes. I use my quick panel nearly as much as I check my notis, and going to the top right to do so is frustrating. Even more, when trying to access notis while an app is open, I frequently open the quick tile panel instead.

I have notis off except for the most urgent of items, but I guess I can understand that most users get a barrage of notifications all day every day and will appreciate the full page, and very few limit theirs to urgent notis only like I do. 

I'm also not crazy about the app drawer changing to one big list versus pages, maybe that can be reverted in settings idk.

Lineage OS with Android 15 on my other phone when you click the "time" from the noti panel, it goes straight to the alarm page in the clock app... Now that's a change I could get behind.

The camera update looks snazzy, battery life seems great so far also.

I do like that you can set the volume for all alarms as one or separately, and that you can group alarms. I don't like the new icons for clock and calculator; they're two staple apps I find it silly to make it harder to find them by changing the icon, no matter how trivial.

Overall, I strongly dislike the change to the notification panel and may look to going back to a launcher app, something I haven't done in a very long time.

I'm really hoping Google knocks it out of the park with their custom processor in this years upcoming pixel device, Samsung continues to stray further and further from what I value in a device whether it be decreased customization, lack of privacy, or slow OS and security updates; I'm ready to ditch Google play and Samsung services entirely and go with Graphene OS. 

Edit: The icon for the "Signal" app notifications is definitely broken on the noti panel, it's not full size but was before the update. Looks very weird.

[Mujibar]

I miss the notification icons on the lock screen. Moving them exclusively up to the status bar is less than useless, especially now that they're limited to 3.

[Inkdej]

I didn't notice this until your comment. I am not a fan.

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[Bryces22ultra]

Don't like the battery percentage indicator being larger than the rest of the icons. Also when the battery gets down in the middle it is difficult to read the numbers as one is bright and the other is in the shaded portion.

[46m3csl]

Loving it so far :fire: no complaints

[user5pyjonwfMW]

This update added a good portion of what i loved about the Nova launcher. There are a few things I'm still trying to figure out, but overall pretty dang solid.