According to the latest report, the Samsung Galaxy S21 series in China began to grab the official version of One UI 4.1 update. One Ul 4.1 brings you the latest features for your Galaxy devices. More intuitive, fun, safer and more convenient than ever.
Check out the changes below.
Camera
- Taking great photos and videos is easier than ever.
More Portrait Video Options
- Capture great portrait videos even when your subjects are far away. In addition to the 1x lens, you can now record portrait videos with the rear camera’s 3x lens.
Further zoom-in shots are available in Pro Mode and Pro Video Mode
- Pro Mode and Pro Video Mode now support telephoto lenses, so you can also take sharper pictures and videos when shooting distant objects.
Provides a comprehensive directorial perspective
- You can save a director’s view video shot with the front and rear cameras separately to edit it later, even after the video is recorded. When playing back these videos in the video player, you can freely switch between different views such as split screen or picture-in-picture.
Photo album
- Do more with your treasured memories. Photo albums have been enhanced to recreate and organize photos and videos, and sharing is easier than ever.
Powerful re-recording function
- Optimize your photos. Sharpen blurred faces, fix distortion on TV or computer screens, and increase brightness and resolution.
Provide more advice
- Offers advice to help you create art-style portraits and exciting highlights. Albums will suggest beautiful effects for your photos.
Added portrait effect
- Now you can add a blur adjustment to any photo with people.
Portrait fill light
- Adjust the lighting for portrait photography, even after shooting, to ensure you always get the perfect shot.
Convert unnecessary dynamic photos to still photos
- Converting dynamic photos to still photos saves storage space. Albums will suggest some photos that don’t need to be kept dynamic, such as files.
Share an album as a link
- No need to individually invite others to a shared album. Just create a link that can be shared with anyone, even without a Samsung account or Galaxy device.
All your invitations in one place
- Even if you miss a notification, you can easily accept shared album invitations. Invitations you haven’t responded to will appear at the top of the list of shared albums.
Create time-lapse videos
- Convert photos into vivid 24-hour time-lapse videos. A button will appear when taking pictures of landscapes, including the sky, water, mountains, or cities. The time-lapse video looks like it goes through the whole day.
AR area
- Express yourself in a whole new way in augmented reality. Create your own emoji, stickers, doodles and more.
Add more to your AR doodles
- You can scan real-world objects to create 3D stickers and add them to your AR doodles. You can also add GIFs from Tenor and Giphy.
background-color in mask mode
- When using My Emoji as a mask, focus on it. Choose your background color from a variety of colors.
Smart widget
- Home screen widgets are smarter. You just choose the widgets you want and Galaxy does the rest.
Group widgets together
- You can combine multiple widgets into one smart widget to save space on your home screen. Swipe left or right to scroll through the widgets, or you can set it to toggle automatically to show the most relevant information based on your activity.
Samsung Health
- The latest version of Samsung Health offers deeper health analytics and enhanced workout tracking.
Get a Health Analysis of Your Body Composition
- Set goals for your weight, body fat percentage, and skeletal muscle mass. You’ll get tips to help you achieve your goals.
Develop good sleep habits
- Track your sleep and provide guidance based on your sleep patterns.
Enhanced workout tracking
- You can set interval training goals on your Galaxy Watch4 before you start running or cycling. Once complete, you will receive a report on your phone. Your watch can also provide information about sweat loss during running and heart rate recovery during cardio.
Samsung Notes
- Write, draw or take notes quickly. Samsung Notes can now connect more with other apps and devices.
Take quick notes while browsing
- You can use the new cut option to track content sources. When you create a note using Air Commands, Shortcuts, or Task Side Panel, you can add content from Samsung Browser or Gallery.
Use your phone as a toolbar
- When taking notes on your tablet, you can free up more screen space for writing by showing the SPen toolbar on your phone.
S Switch Assistant
- Transfer contacts, photos, messages and settings from your old phone or tablet to your new Galaxy device. One Ul 4.1 lets you stream more content than ever.
More transfer options
- When transferring content to the new Galaxy, you have 3 options. You can choose to transfer everything, or just your accounts, contacts, call logs, and information, or customize exactly what you want to transfer.
Share
- One Ul 4.1 gives you more ways to share with others.
Share your Wi-Fi network
- You can share your current Wi-Fi network with others using the S-Share feature. People you share with can automatically connect to your network without entering a password.
Share edit history when sharing photos and videos
- When sharing photos and videos using S-Share, the full edit history is also shared so recipients can view the changes or restore them to their original state.
Share tips with others
- Found something useful in the Tips app? Tap the share icon to send it to a friend.
More features and improvements
Palette
- Customize your phone with unique colors according to your wallpaper. Your custom color palettes are now available in more applications.
Clear shadows and reflections in the picture editor
- Shadows and reflections are automatically removed when using the Object Eraser.
Add emoji to your calendar
- In addition to stickers, you can now add emojis to dates in your calendar to express your feelings.
Customize your sound balance
- In Accessibility settings, you can separately adjust the left/right sound balance of connected devices (such as speakers or headphones) and the sound balance of your phone’s speakers. This allows for the perfect balance of sound on your headphones without compromising ringtones and speakers.
New actions for Bixby daily routines
- You can now create daily routines that change watch faces or open advanced settings like protecting the battery.
custom virtual memory
- You can choose the size of the phone’s virtual memory using RAM Plus in Device Maintenance. Choose more memory to increase performance, or choose less memory to save storage space.
Game optimization service
- The game initially does not limit CPU/GPU performance. (Performance management features are maintained based on device temperature.) “Alternate Game Performance Management Mode” is available in Game Booster. Allows third-party applications to bypass game optimization services.
Some applications need to be updated separately after the One Ul 4.1 update.
