The Samsung Android 13 (One UI 5.0) update brings a revamped UI design with expanded palette functionality, stacked widgets, larger app icons in the notification area, a tweaked Quick Settings switch, and a translucent effect in the notification area. Animations and transitions now look smoother.

The new software also brings per-app language settings for supported apps, improved built-in apps, and more accessibility settings. Samsung has added OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality throughout the system. As a result, the camera and gallery applications can extract text from images. Even the Samsung keyboard can open the camera view and capture text from the live camera screen.

Samsung has renamed Bixby Routines to Modes & Routines. it’s a simpler version of Bixby Routines, with a few routines preset for most people. both Bixby and Modes & Routines get new features and options. There are now more granular options for how each app displays notifications.

There are now more emojis, animated emojis, and AR emojis. There’s also a simplified privacy and security section, a new Connected Devices menu, and new multitasking gestures. Search performance within the built-in apps and One UI has been improved. The camera app received a slightly simplified design.

Samsung DeX UI has been improved and Samsung Gallery, Samsung Internet, Samsung My Files and other built-in apps have received many new features. Memory expansion can now be customized or turned off. The built-in image and video editors have also been improved. Detailed Wi-Fi diagnostic menus are also supported.

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Sally Hyesoon Jeong, vice president of Android framework development at Samsung Electronics, said in an interview that One UI 5.0 is currently being rolled out in most markets around the world. From an engineering and product management perspective, it’s impossible to give a definite date for every eligible model, but “we hope to complete the rollout within this year.

Updates such as One UI 5.0 and One UI 4.0 are described as focusing on delivering a new software experience alongside the Android OS upgrade. When Samsung launches a new foldable device, the software experience will be further optimized for foldable devices.

Samsung held a developer conference in October this year and confirmed that the One UI 5.0 update will be pushed to the Galaxy S22 series starting in October and pushed to the remaining flagship products by 2023.

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The firmware version of the stable Android 13 and One UI 5.0 update for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 is F936U1UEU1BVK3. The update is available in the US for unlocked Galaxy Z Fold 4 models participating in the One UI 5.0 Beta program. Since the firmware version of the One UI 5.0 Beta 5 update for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 ends with ZVK3, it looks like it’s stable enough to be a stable update. The update brings the November 2022 security patch to the folding screen phone.

One UI 5.0 Beta 5 user of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 in the US can download the stable Android 13 update. Users can do so by navigating to Settings — Software Update and tapping Download and Install. Samsung could release the stable Android 13 update to all other Galaxy Z Fold 4 users in the US as soon as next week.

The Samsung Android 13 / One UI 5.0 update brings a slightly revised UI design with an expanded palette feature, larger icons in the notification area, and slight changes to the Quick Settings toggle section. The update also brings stacked widgets, separate language settings for each app, Samsung DeX user interface improvements, and a reorganized privacy and security dashboard.

Other improvements include better animations and transitions, easier multitasking gestures, OCR recognition in the Gallery app, and improved editing capabilities in the built-in image and video editor sections. improvements have also been made to Bixby and Bixby Routines, bringing new options and features. Bixby Routines has been rebranded as Modes & Routines. Performance and accessibility features have also been enhanced.

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