Push notification icons on the always on display are too small. They're also now positioned at the top left. They are way too hard to see now. Please give users the option to move them back to the center of the screen and make them bigger!
The same goes with the battery percentage. The number is now inside the battery icon. It is very difficult to see. Let the user change the way this looks by putting the number outside of the pill icon.
Another stupid change is having to swipe down twice to see the media player. Previously, you would have to swipe down only once to control songs. Now, you have to swipe down twice. This is incredibly annoying.
The app switcher or task changer now looks like Apple's. It's much slower when apps overlap each other. It was so much better with OneUI 6 when apps were separated as full windows. Also, if you press the app switcher to cancel that function, it still switches you to the previous screen.
Lastly, this is probably an Android thing but the lack of notifications was horrible. Not getting Gmail or Yahoo emails was a deal breaker. Android has an aggressive power-saving feature called doze that subdued apps from functioning in the background. I would not get emails until I turned my screen on; only then with all my notifications show up.
I returned the S25 Ultra because the 24 Ultra was so much better in terms of appearance and functionality. Samsung needs to realize that making changes just for the sake of being different is not a good thing.
