I live in the USA. This past Monday my phone updated before the pause in the rollout of one UI 7. I haven't personally experienced any supermassive bugs. In fact, I'm actually really liking it so far. The introduction of a proper app drawer as well as some increased flexibility in widgets has drawn me back to one UI home from Nova launcher. There are still a few customizations I wish they offered in home up like the ability to add a search bar underneath the dock like you get in the pixel launcher or the ability to just resize widgets vertically more. However, I've run into two bugs. One seems rather small, the other is a bit bigger.
The first bug is with the power button. Occasionally, the phone takes an extra press of the power button to lock the screen. I will press the button and nothing will happen, I press it again and it locks. The other has to do with the locked folder. When I move a photo to the locked folder in the gallery app it says it's moving the photo into the locked folder but it doesn't disappear from the regular gallery app. You can't move it again it gives you a message saying that the item would need to be redownloaded before it could be moved into the locked folder. Additionally, once it's been "moved"it doesn't show up to other apps. For example, if I go to text someone and I go to add a photo it doesn't show up in the other app as an image I can attach to the message. However, even the next day, some of the pictures were still showing up in the Samsung gallery app. I was able to get rid of them by simply deleting them and doing that did not remove them from the locked folder, but it seems like they have a bit of an issue with things moving in and out of the locked folder. This particularly seems to be an issue regarding photos. I find this a little bit concerning since it was reported online that there was a major bug that allowed access to the locked folder without additional authentication when the stories from the locked folder gallery app were clicked on.
Overall, I really am liking what Samsung has done here. There are a few things that I don't like. I am one of the few people who actually does use Bixby on a regular basis. I do it because I prefer Samsung reminders to Google tasks and despite their new integration with the Samsung notes app, Gemini does not have the ability to save a reminder in the Samsung reminders app. What I used to do was have Bixby set to be triggered while pressing the power button and the Google Assistant would trigger when you dragged up from the bottom corner, that no longer works anymore so if I want to activate the Google Assistant I do need to say the wake word which is too bad. I'm appreciating the animation smoothness. It looks quite nice. I have been having some fun with a large folders. It's especially nice because you then don't have to open the folder to click on most of the icons. I will admit I have been a little bit frustrated by the delayed rollout. I do hope that the remaining updates my phone is scheduled to get will go a bit smoother. But for the moment I do like what Samsung has done
That's interesting reading this because on the day the ui got released on the 10th I never once experienced any bugs or freezing or lagging but one thing is did noticed was that notorious Spotify freeze up and I thought maybe it was the ui 7 but turns out it was on Spotifys end that needed to get it fixed and restored and ever since then battery life is still awesome, no color lines on my front screen, secure folder is working normal and never experienced the bug or getting locked out of your phone for days.
For me, I've had a bug with the bubble messages not working after a few times interacting with it. The bubble message ui just breaks after a short period of time until i restart the phone, not even closing out of the app and deleting the bubbles fixes it. I'm not sure how to go about this.
