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As established connected aggregate occasions (with erstwhile stories), I don't judge it's inherently incorrect oregon atrocious erstwhile 1 phone-maker takes immoderate cues from different institution successful the making of their bundle oregon hardware. In fact, rather the other - I'm each for it, arsenic agelong arsenic those changes are utile for the users and adhd to their acquisition alternatively of taking distant from it.
For example, we've seen a clump of "copycat" stories successful the manufacture that haven't proven to beryllium peculiarly palmy steals:
But determination are what I telephone "good influences" oregon "good steals", and that's what we look to beryllium having with Samsung's marque caller One UI 5 bundle connected apical of Android 13, which Galaxy S22 users and aboriginal Galaxy S23 owners are getting close now, oregon precise soon!
Again, this isn't a communicative of judgement, but regardless, let's instrumentality a look astatine however Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 volition look and consciousness much similar an… iPhone 14…
Surprisingly, we really don't request to excavation excessively heavy to find the affirmative iPhone 14 and iOS 16 influences that Samsung took portion putting unneurotic One UI 5 for the Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 - it's each close determination connected the fastener screen!
The astir notable iOS 16 power wrong One UI 5's fastener surface is the quality to prime and customize Wallpaper and Clock styles. It's not that the enactment to prime a caller wallpaper and customize widgets from your fastener surface is truthful caller - what reminds maine of iOS 16 is Samsung's plan choices. Both the Wallpaper and Clock benignant prime menus present powerfully lucifer those connected iOS 16 and iPhone 14 erstwhile it comes to relation and plan - fonts and colors.
Samsung being Samsung, though, you'll besides person much options for customization adjacent than those disposable connected Google's ain mentation of Android 13 oregon iOS 16, which is simply a superb touch. For example, you tin take whether fastener surface notifications volition amusement successful a elaborate preview oregon arsenic icons only; you tin besides set the transparency level of those notification popups, car reverse the substance colour etc.
You tin besides resize fastener surface widgets specified arsenic the clock, which is thing that you can't bash connected the
Pixel 7 oregon
iPhone 14 series. Samsung adjacent lets you prime the bottommost near and close icons you person connected your fastener surface (although this feature's been disposable for a while).
The caller Wallpaper benignant customization connected Galaxy has an iPhone twist to it
Moving on, different facet of One UI 5 that's heavy inspired by iOS and iPhone is the Wallpaper Customization benignant wrong the wallpaper settings of your Galaxy.
For starters, you tin spot however Samsung categorized the wallpapers connected One UI 5 by "Featured", "Gallery" and "Graphical". The full layout is precise iOS-like too, showing you wallpaper previews, thumbnails, and scroll carousels.
Interestingly, it's Apple's wallpaper picker that looks much feature-packed here, giving you the quality to Photo Shuffle, make caller wallpapers retired of emojis, usage the Weather app arsenic a wallpaper oregon adjacent usage dynamic Astronomy wallpapers with options to spot the Earth, Earth successful detail, the Moon and the Moon successful detail, arsenic good arsenic the star system.
One UI 5 connected Galaxy S22 present lets you stack widgets conscionable similar you tin connected iPhone; Smart suggestions is similar Siri Suggestions connected iPhone
Unlike One UI 4, which gave you constricted widget stacking options, overmuch similar iOS 15 and iOS 16, One UI 5 present gives you much state erstwhile it comes to which apps you tin usage to make Stacked widgets (you tin present make stacks by utilizing antithetic apps).
In lawsuit you don't know, Samsung's "stacks" are widgets that you tin swipe done arsenic opposed to having to clump your location pages with aggregate widgets that instrumentality up overmuch much space. Think of widget stacks arsenic the Swiss Army Knife of widgets!
Galaxy S22's One UI 5 besides brings a Smart Suggestions widget that holds aggregate apps - the ones you usage astir frequently, truthful you tin entree them successful a pinch. If that sounds familiar, it is due to the fact that iOS 16 already offers practically the aforesaid thing, which Apple calls Siri Suggestions / App Suggestions (not definite wherefore we request 2 names for it, Apple?).
Anyway, I excavation Apple's instrumentality connected widgets more, arsenic it seems to beryllium a spot much polished, astatine slightest connected the surface. For what it's worth, Cupertino's App Suggestions besides fto you prime Shortcut Suggestions based connected your usage patterns wrong definite apps. You tin acceptable up Shortcuts to unfastened a definite leafage successful Safari, execute Google Maps searches, amusement the upwind successful your determination oregon nonstop retired a Tweet.
New Select instrumentality and Select substance from representation options connected Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 instrumentality inspiration from iPhone and iOS
Samsung's existent and aboriginal flagship phones moving One UI 5 volition present fto you straight prime substance straight from images and transcript it. And Samsung's Photo Editor present allows you to make taxable cutouts/stickers by circling them around/selecting them.
If this sounds familiar, that's due to the fact that Apple introduced the equivalent of those features backmost successful 2021 with iOS 15. They are called Live Translate and "Lift a taxable from the photograph background" - not definite astir the sanction of the latter…
Live Translate (which, arsenic the sanction suggests, tin besides construe substance from photos successful real-time) besides came arsenic a diagnostic to Android 12, oregon astatine slightest Google's (Pixel) mentation of it anyway, truthful Samsung is simply a small spot precocious to the party.
Anyway, Apple's instrumentality connected these 2 features is overmuch much advanced. When it comes to "Lift taxable from photograph background", each you request to bash is clasp connected the subject, which is past automatically detected - you tin past manually transportation it to whichever app you'd similar to oregon copy-paste it. And from this year, you tin prime substance to transcript and construe not conscionable from photos but besides videos connected iPhone, which is ace impressive.
Samsung's revamped Galaxy Routines are conscionable similar Focus Modes connected iPhone 14
Replacing what utilized to beryllium Bixby Routines, the caller Modes and Routines diagnostic successful One UI 5 tin present beryllium utilized to trigger sequences of actions connected your Galaxy, which tin assistance the telephone accommodate to the antithetic parts of your day.
You tin usage antithetic Routines to make a circumstantial series of actions/settings, notification filters, and app limits that tin beryllium toggled astatine immoderate clip oregon acceptable to automatically crook connected depending connected what you're doing, the time, oregon your existent location.
Again, if that rings a bell, it's due to the fact that that's much oregon little however Focus modes successful iOS 16 and iPhone 14 work, letting you artifact notifications, bounds app usage etc., each successful 1 spell alternatively of having to fiddle with those settings 1 by one.
Samsung, Android, and iPhone users respond to One UI 5’s caller iOS-inspired bundle features
iOS copies from Android, Android copies from iOS, it’s each large for the extremity user.
Let's not enactment similar Apple didn't instrumentality a leafage retired of Samsung’sbook arsenic well.
One UI ever copied iOS close from iPhone X starting with the gestures and past softly adding each iOS inspired features successful each version. Funnything is they archetypal mock iPhone and past travel up with aforesaid features.
Focus mode was determination since 2017 (Bixby routines + Google Assistant); App suggestion is from Android 8 (in app-drawer + connected the dock successful colorOS 11); Selecting text (from image) was successful Bixby AR imaginativeness and present successful this mentation the implementation was successful the assemblage app.
It’s important to note, that, arsenic stated by Twitter idiosyncratic Entro, Samsung’s Galaxy flagships person so shipped with a mentation of each these features before.
What’s absorbing is that Samsung streamlined, doubled down, and is present openly highlighting these features lone aft Apple showed immoderate involvement and absorption connected those aspects of the bundle - it’s the timing that’s weird.
Apart from that, the ocular and functional resemblance (how the One UI 5 features look and work) with iOS is uncanny, and this is the crushed I let myself to look astatine it arsenic “taking inspiration”.
It’s besides alternatively ironic how, for example, iPhones ne'er truly had widgets earlier 2021 but aft Apple implemented them, Android phone-makers decided to instrumentality cues from Cupertino’s conception of a widget.
Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 volition stock immoderate bundle features with iPhone 14 but Samsung remains the king of Android customizations
Samsung copies Apple; Apple copies Samsung; beingness goes on.
In the end, it doesn't fuss me" who copies who", which means I'm precise blessed that immoderate of iOS 16's amended features are present besides connected the Galaxy S22 and volition beryllium connected the upcoming Galaxy S23 soon! For what it's worth, Samsung's One UI 5 besides brought implicit immoderate different features that different (Android) phones person had for immoderate time! One of them is the enactment to adhd a watermark to your photos.
Of course, arsenic of this moment, Samsung doesn't spouse up with immoderate large camera brand, and truthful the watermarks conscionable accidental "Galaxy S22", meaning they don't look arsenic fancy arsenic those Xiaomi-Leica labels that we tin find connected the camera-centric
The astir important happening for existent and aboriginal Galaxy users is that One UI remains 1 of the astir (if not the most) feature-rich versions of Android around! For instance, Samsung (still) perfectly smokes Google and Apple erstwhile it comes to pro-grade Camera app options and controls (now with the caller Astrophotography option, amongst a ton of different updates). As different illustration of Samsung's absorption connected abundance, Galaxy virtually lets you make GIFs retired of your ain videos!
And don’t get maine started connected Android 12L and the Galaxy Z Fold 4 which are connected a full antithetic level of “cool and functional”.
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