Thanks to this thread, i realized it was possible to restore my power button to pulling up the power menu, instead of Google’s AI. So i did so. And i told my husband, who did that, and also turned off a bunch of other gestures he didn’t like.
What had it been?
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Very weird. I’ve never seen the time stacked like that before.
Thanks for the fixes. I’m unimpressed with the update, which does nothing I’m interested in and makes it much harder to use.
One thing I don’t like is that now, when I click on a phone number, it will only go to one of the phone apps (Google or Samsung, the one I don’t use, don’t remember which) and requires it to be the default app in order to make the call.
I had a similar problem with Messages last year on an earlier version of Android.
I had to make Google Messages the default.
I didn’t want to use Samsung Messages.
I try to use Google for everything. The calendar, Messages, Contacts etc.
I used to use Nova Launcher; after I heard that news I started looking at alternatives and eventually settled on Smart Launcher.
I don’t like the “battery life percentage” in the top right changing from a nice, clean, readable number into a tiny bar chart, with (too) small numbers squeezed in. I’ve found fixes and settings for many other things I don’t like, but not that.
Same here.
Same here, and I have a tiny crack in my screen protector that exactly obscures the number.
I dislike having to turn to landscape mode to check my battery level. I knpw this is a problem unique to me, but the old version was readable even with the slightly damaged screen.
In the untailored Google-standard Android (15 or 16), the battery state icon is an unlabeled bar graph in the shape of a dry cell (“battery”), with an option to display the numerical charge percentage next to the icon.
Samsung doesn’t do that?
I prefer the graphical representation to a number. I don’t need to know whether my battery is at 73% or 74%, and i can see the approximate size of the little image of a battery quickly, to without having to interpret numbers. Although, since there’s room on my alerts bar, i show both.
On my Samsung Android, I have the numerals only.
The microscopic battery gauge pisses me off too. Best workaround I’ve found is an app: Battery Widget % Level Plus. Gives me a home screen widget that’s next best thing to what was taken away. I only use it to glance at the battery level so “contains ads” isn’t an issue.