I upgraded to the s25 ultra from the z flip 5 and I had no idea the music player was in the quick panel and not notifications. It's so incredibly tedious and obnoxious having to pause music now etc
Another issue I have is that you can no longer organize apps by alphabetical order without it making you scroll up and down when that's not how I prefer it. I prefer left and right so I spent 3 hours organizing my apps in alphabetical order because of this overall I just hate one ui7 it's so inconvenient and not user friendly
Why did Samsung think that this was ok??? I almost wanna return the phone and keep my flip 5 🙃
As far as placing the music player in the notification area this can be done. Swipe down twice to get the full notification screen, the click on the pen icon, then choose the "Panel settings" on the top left. You can play around with the two settings "Separate" and "Together" to get the feel you prefer. Anyway, click on the "Edit top quick settings" and arrange the icon you want in the first pull down menu (depends on how many icons you have set to view initially) and go from there
Edit: As for the above, if this is not what you mean, then I apologize.
As far as organizing the apps alphabetically, swipe up from the bottom to get the apps tray, you will see a search bar with three dots on the right. Click on those three dots, choose sort then alphabetical order.
For that feature to be added to the S25 "eventually" as it already has the UI 7, would be a serious issue, or for any aspect of UI 7 having fewer featuress for S25 until later dates.
Besides the few issues needing to be addressed by at least when the final release is updated for the limited few previously released device series, nothing added to those devices should take precedence over the latest Samsung model.
I don't think Samsung realized the amount of pushback they would get by having media player only on the Quick Panel. When I was on the Ui7 Beta on my S24U, the complaints were loud, and many. When Samsung released the Beta for the Fold 7 not only was the media player added to the notification shade, but it was also added to the status bar along with Google Scores, you are able to toggle between the 2. This came to the S24U in Beta 5. It is probably why it took so long for Beta 5 to be released. I was on Beta 4 on my S24u back in January before I withdrew from the Beta to rollback before my trade-in.
Personally, I don't want it on my notification panel to distracting, I just want notifications. A double swipe gets me to the media player if I need to use it. I usually access it from my Now Bar on my Lockscreen or AOD. I don't even want it on my Status Bar, I have most things turned off on my status bar.
Cool. As far as not wanting it on the notification panel, that should be optional. I get software creations to be sold as features for operating systems on smartphones not being made democratically, but if adding features back but leaving them out on the latest model would be a near game changer for me.
The 23 and 24 were just not compelling enough to warrant upgrading from 22 and even going from the 21 to the 22 was a minor jump. Many reviewers complaints over the last two years, and especially with S25 ultra, is Samsung keeping essentially much of the same hardware, except for the 8 Gen series iterations, have been unremarkable at best with software changes trying to improve on them, especially the camera system. They just can't keep rehabilitating virtually the same hardware with software upgrades as any real or substantive changes for the money.
Samsung has a huge market and probably feels that market is dependable, so don't make any big changes. I for one have mostly, but not overwhelmingly been pretty much a Samsung user going back to the S5 series, with an LG, Oneplus in between. But a few brands have caught up in software and Google still makes the best camera software and hardware combo going. Samsung's selling point is great quality build, design incredible customization. But those mean nothing if some of hardware changes is basic increments to not at all with software changes.
I'm not into brand loyalty, just a device even at premium money offers a good purchase I feel is worth. At this point, Samsung will have to offer substantially better hardware with better software for the money, especially in the camera system where even the Oneplus 13 rivals the S25 ultra for $300 less. I wish the US would lift that ridiculous ban on Chinese phones as would have def opted this year for the X200. (end rant 😊}
Prior to the Samsung the keynote announcement of the S25 series, I already knew the biggest upgrade would be the Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 5G-RF modem, this was the MAIN reason for me to upgrade. It has been a game changer for me in my apartment . It was. awful. I went from 30 to 800
