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Samsung One UI 8 (S25 Ultra) vs Apple iOS 26 (iPhone 16 Pro Max) - Which Update is Better?
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Jun 20, 2025
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what's up YouTube jeff back again to
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another exciting Samsung video for you
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guys and today yes sometimes we have to
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take a look at the competition and even
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though we're a Samsung site today I'm
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running iOS 26 developer beta on my
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iPhone 16 Pro Max to compare it to 1 UI
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8 beta number one on the Galaxy S25
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Ultra going to show the different design
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of the two devices i'm going to talk a
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little bit about some of the features
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that are similar some of the things that
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Apple borrowed from Android and Samsung
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compare some of them where Apple is
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doing well where they're kind of coming
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that out if you're interested so Apple
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did their largest redesign in the
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history well I should say since iOS 7
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for the uh iOS this year and iOS 26 is
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the new name so we're not going from iOS
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18 to 19 it's iOS 26 they made this kind
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of shift so that all the version numbers
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are same mac OS iPad OS Watch OS all
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that corresponding with the year because
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of course 2026 is coming up and that'll
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basically be the majority of that year
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it'll be the newest operating system i
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guess that's the thought process anyway
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they come up with this brand new liquid
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glass design um that's supposed to
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basically change with the way the light
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shifts you can kind of see if I It's
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kind of hard under the studio lights
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maybe but you can kind of see if you
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move it around it changes a little bit
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it's a little bit easier to see with the
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clear icons which look more like glass
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and I'll show you guys that in a second
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but these icons even you can kind of see
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the glass effect on them close up now I
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want to show you guys a tour of kind of
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everything so this is the home screen
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i'll show you some different looks with
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the different icons this is a pretty
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standard 1 UI 8 home screen very similar
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to 1 UI7 if we go into the quick panel
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you guys can see here one of the
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concerns I have about iOS 26 is the
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readability you can see here there's a
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lot going on a lot of distractions
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depending on the wallpaper you have as
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well some of these things are not as
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readable as you might like um you still
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have the option to you know go up here
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to the plus sign you can add controls
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and customize them like you could before
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i still think Apple kind of did a good
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job with that there's some things that
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Samsung could learn from that um but of
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course on 1 UI 8 you can also edit your
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controls here i mean the overall look I
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think 1 UI8's a lot more readable even
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though I do like the liquid glass idea
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in general uh you guys can let me know
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what you think i think there's a lot
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going on here now that just kind of
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continues if you go into the
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notification shade let me go on both
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here if we go into the notification
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shade and we look at some notifications
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you're going to notice here there's some
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readability issues depending on the
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wallpaper you have now they try to
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minimize this and they say it adapts to
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different wallpapers i've noticed it
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does an okay job but depending on your
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vision and your preferences you might
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not necessarily like the readability
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that you get uh from swiping down and
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getting into your notification center
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it's not a massive concern for me it
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hasn't bothered me a lot yet but it
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might be a concern for some people um
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and something that you don't necessarily
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love now you guys see that new animation
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there very cool apple has done some
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really cool things with the animations
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uh let's go to the lock screen really
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quick so we can take a look at the lock
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screen on these two devices the lock
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screen is always a fun thing to take a
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look at uh Samsung has done some great
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things apple has this new feature where
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you can stretch the clock you have to
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unlock your phone to edit which is
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standard unfortunately you don't have a
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fingerprint sensor on there which is
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annoying over here that's one thing I
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still hate about Apple is no fingerprint
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sensor so you have this option to
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stretch the clock of course on 1 UI7 you
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can also make a very large clock it's
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not quite as stretched it's not the
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exact same pattern as it is over here
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but you can still do something very
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similar um if you go into customization
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options here they still have some cool
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things like the spatial scenes depth
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effects and of course you can see here
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the extend wallpaper option there with
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the depth effect you'll see all that
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cool stuff right there it'll let you do
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that um those are some things that
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Samsung could probably you can still do
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variations of that but that'd be a nice
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thing to see Samsung kind of add to the
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lock screen editor but personally I
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still like the widgets better on Galaxy
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devices apple's done a nice job with
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widgets but I still just like the the
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options the way they look a little bit
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better i like the layout of the lock
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screen a little bit better of course
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again I am a Samsung guy so that's
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expected i do think it's kind of nice
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that here you get some previews of some
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popular ones at the very top here you
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just get this long list so that's
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something as well that maybe Samsung
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could improve you got these two
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shortcuts there which very similar pinch
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to crop over here of course you can also
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edit that here as well i mean Samsung
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does have a lot more clock styles if you
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actually look at the styles also this
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stretch thing can only be done with the
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main clock style samsung's got a lot
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more and if you install clock face you
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can actually get even more styles than
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what you can get with Apple now you do
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have glass versus solid and admittedly
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the glass look does look interesting
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i've been trying it since that's you
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know kind of their entire new their
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entire new thing uh you can also play
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around with you know moving around the
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date and the clock here there's a couple
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of options there over here you've also
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got widgets that you can move to the you
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can get rid of the date and put
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something different up there if you're
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interested so the widgets now move down
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here if you stretch the clock on iOS 26
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so overall I mean I do think the lock
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screen looks decent on iOS 26 but I
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still like the clean look of 1 UI 8 a
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little bit better i also really do love
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having the now bar down here and I've
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never been a big fan of Apple's
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notifications and I I don't think I ever
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will be until they decide to change that
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you see here the glass effect on the
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passcode screen it does have elements
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that look really really nice now if we
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talk a little bit about the home screen
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customization options Apple's added a
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few things this year to the
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customization you now have default dark
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i'll go over here as well and go to
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settings and uh here inside settings of
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course you can change your app size
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which is something you can do here as
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well on iOS and then you also have the
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ability to basically change your icons
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as well if you go into wallpaper and
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style and go into color palette this is
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where you'd be able to apply the palette
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to app icons something I don't really
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like to do but Apple gives you the
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ability to have default dark icons clear
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which is this glass effect um you can do
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that with light dark or tinted the auto
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will adapt it to the wallpaper and then
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you can also do the tinted one which
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will allow you to change it based on the
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color i have found this to be a little
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buggy um the clear ones are very
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interesting i'll leave those there for a
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minute so you guys can see how they look
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but of course keep in mind that one
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thing that's really easy to do on
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Android and specifically on Samsung
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phones if you use theme park is you can
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install any icon pack from the Play
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Store that you want you can even get
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icons that look like this or anything
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else that you want now since I'm on the
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beta uh I don't have any icon packs
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installed now but I have a lot of icons
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I like to use like Vera Aries a lot of
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other ones from 14 Studio you can get
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any icons you want and I actually think
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the 1 UI 8 stock icons look really good
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um but Apple's definitely trying
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something new here they're trying to
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give more customization um and give
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people a new look because again they
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haven't done anything new for a while
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just like Samsung tried with 1 UI7
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something completely new that's what
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they're doing as well so this is the
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true like glass look you guys can see if
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you move it in the light the icons shift
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a little bit based on kind of the
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available light and the viewing angle
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and they've done a pretty good job with
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that overall I think it looks pretty
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nice but 1 UI 8 I'm still very happy
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with the design and again I can change
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my eye contact to whatever I want so
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it's not something that I feel like you
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know is going to make a huge difference
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make me want to switch to iOS uh let me
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show you guys a couple of cool things
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that I did notice uh if you go into
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music they have they have these
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throughout the UI i won't spend time on
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all of them but they have some really
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cool like I showed you guys the other
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animation earlier that was added like
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down here if you're browsing through
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something look at this little glass this
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little piece of glass like moves between
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like as you tap your finger that little
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bubble that little glass bubble moves
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around which is really really cool um I
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think these kind of effects are
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something that do make Apple unique
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samsung has tried to add more animations
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and you know bouncy there's a lot more
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bounciness going on in iOS that's
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something I think a lot of us would like
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to see but again Samsung did give you
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the option to tune a lot of your
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animations in HomeUp with the new
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version of HomeUp and 1 UI7 so you can
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still play around with that anytime you
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want if you go into good lock but little
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touches like this like the moving glass
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bubble those are things that Apple does
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really well and uh even though you can
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edit it in homeup a lot of the animation
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stock animations these little touches
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are things that Samsung maybe should get
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used to adding more which will give
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people a little more identity and
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personality for 1 UI 7 1 UI 8 1 UI 9 etc
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as we go on uh I think that people enjoy
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these type of things okay so enough
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about the design the design is
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interesting thing i think a lot of
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people are going to either love or hate
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this design there's obviously some
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readability things they could work on
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but aside from the design let's talk
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about some of the features that they
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added and first of all if you look at
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the settings menu one thing I will say
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here is look at the spacing in the
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settings menu it seems like a lot of
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space compared to the old iOS settings
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um it looks a little weird at first
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glance um that's just one thing that I
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noticed but they did add some features
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that are similar to Galaxy things uh one
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of them is if you go into power mode so
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if we go into a power mode uh you have
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an option now down here in power mode to
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enable adaptive power now if you
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actually look at this this is something
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that was undoubtedly inspired even
10:07
though it's a little different is the
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light performance profile on Samsung
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devices when your battery usage higher
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than usual iPhone can make small
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performance adjustments to extend your
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battery life including slightly lowering
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display brightness or allowing some
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activities to take a little longer so
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that's very similar to prioritizing
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battery life and cooling efficiency over
10:24
pri processing speed but this does it in
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an adaptive way suggest it's using AI to
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do it on the fly whereas light
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performance profile mode does it all the
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time but still neither of these really
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apply to games and so they're helping
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you get better battery life in the long
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run so this is something that Apple
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added which I think is a nice feature
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and not directly comp you know copied
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from performance profile you know the
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light performance profile even though it
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is kind of inspired by that idea
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everyone's always borrowing stuff to try
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to get better um one thing that was more
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or less ripped off was circle to search
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from Google if you long press on your
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Galaxy phone you can highlight anywhere
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and you can circle something and you can
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search it using Google search directly
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and this one it tells you very good
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summary using Google Gemini search labs
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uh what's going on in the image now on
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the iPhone what you have to do is you
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actually have to take a screenshot let's
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see if I can even do this uh here if you
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take a screenshot so by hitting power
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and volume up which I did behind the
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camera there you'll then be able to do
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this new highlight to search which
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includes ash chat GPT as well as image
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search so if you do highlight to search
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it works basically the same you don't
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have to tap on this i I forgot about
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that you can highlight any part of it
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and then you can swipe up for image
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search which will tell you it's going to
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search for Google kind of like here and
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then it will show you some similar
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results now you can also tap on ask chat
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GPT ask about details will automatically
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send it and give you a description of
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what's going on uh whatever you ask
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about on your screen and then of course
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image search just brings up that same
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piece before one thing I do like is it
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does drop this little icon that shows
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you where you did a highlight search
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it's very similar i mean they changed
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the way the screenshot tool works and
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obviously you could say this is also
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much inspired by AI select which
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basically is Samsung's version of kind
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of circle to search but this is more to
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do with you know things on the device
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but of course from here you can do a lot
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of other things that allow you to set as
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a wallpaper etc and up here you can also
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do those kind of things share it in
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various ways so I still think with AI
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select and circle search Samsung is
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still a bit ahead i think it's a little
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easier to use um you don't need to take
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a screenshot on here you just hold that
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bottom bar immediately you're in circle
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to search but it's certainly a step
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forward for Apple users and the
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inclusion of chat GPT if that's what you
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use for your AI agent might be something
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that's very appealing to a lot of people
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apple also added a version of Bixby text
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call so of course also Google had this
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first with call screening so if you go
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into the phone application let me go
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into I really really just I am not a big
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fan of iOS settings at all i'm just not
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a huge fan if you go into the phone app
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and you take a look at the settings here
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you'll see that they have this new
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option down here screen incoming calls
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which is basically the same as Bixby
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text call calls from unsaved numbers
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will be asked for more information
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before iPhone rings now here's the thing
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with text call and with call screen from
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Google you can screen any call you want
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not just unknown numbers i mean it makes
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sense I suppose from Apple's perspective
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they would only want to screen things
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that are from unknown numbers cuz why
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would you screen your contacts sometimes
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I like to mess with my wife and screen
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her calls she doesn't really appreciate
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it but uh this is something that right
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now you can only do from unknown numbers
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you see you've got these other options
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here as well you'll be able to do this
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with messages as well kind of screen
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messages uh coming up when iOS 8 uh 26
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releases in stable you've also now got
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the ability for this to wait on hold for
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you and uh wait till the person picks up
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and then it will notify you and you can
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pick up so a lot of features that
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Samsung and Google have had for a while
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are now coming to iOS 26 when it comes
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to the phone app and messages as well
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apple is also doing something that
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Google has done for a long time with
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visited places in Apple Maps now you'll
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be able to see the places you visit you
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can save how long it wants you know
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select how long it wants you to save
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your visits google pretty much does it
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forever unless you opt out but you'll be
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able to see all these aggregated in the
14:30
maps app another change to a core iOS
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app is with the wallet app with wallet
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you now have the ability to pay in
14:38
installments which is something that
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Samsung wallet actually recently added i
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made a full video on this if we go to
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let me go to my quick access card i'll
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show you guys you have the ability to
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pay installments right here with this
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Visa card that I set up you can do
14:51
installment payments in store i've been
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doing this you basically just tap select
14:55
installments they'll set up a payin for
14:57
plan directly through Samsung and their
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partner and I guess Apple's doing this
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kind of the same way with Apple Pay
15:03
using wallet now I haven't set this up
15:05
and tried it yet but I imagine that it
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probably works in a very similar way and
15:10
I will do a full comparison of these two
15:12
features just to kind of compare them
15:14
samsung is obviously trying to do this
15:15
in partnership with Split apple already
15:17
has a partnership with Apple Pay because
15:19
of the Apple card with Goldman Sachs so
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they're trying to do this new pay in
15:23
four installments built directly into
15:25
the wallet app as well there's a brand
15:27
new games app Apple games which of
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course Samsung has had for a long time
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you have the gaming hub where you can
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have all the games that you play on your
15:36
device you've got your library Apple
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Arcade events and updates very similar
15:40
you can see all the games that you have
15:41
installed in your library like I can
15:44
here play together some various things
15:46
like this instant play is something that
15:48
Samsung has it's very interesting that
15:50
is not yet on Apple as far as I know i
15:52
could be wrong though you know again I
15:54
don't use Apple as much as so if you
15:56
correct me but I don't think they have
15:58
instant play where you can start playing
15:59
it without having downloaded the entire
16:01
game yet it's a pretty cool feature game
16:03
booster uh is something that Samsung has
16:05
that as far as I know also Apple doesn't
16:07
have that doesn't appear to be in this
16:09
new games app this just aggregates your
16:11
games has arcade and play together game
16:13
booster you can actually customize your
16:14
performance motion smoothness um custom
16:17
for individual games uh set up your game
16:20
controller and all that kind of stuff
16:21
now you do have the ability over here to
16:23
set up a game controller you can do that
16:25
inside the app once you actually start
16:28
playing a game it'll pop up and let you
16:29
add a game controller but all this stuff
16:31
like save power during touch protection
16:33
auto touch protection uh access the game
16:36
panel pop-up app reorder tools there's a
16:38
bunch of other stuff coming as well
16:40
respawn indicators some other ones I
16:42
showed in a recent update to Game
16:44
Booster that is a version that hasn't
16:45
even released so Apple still seems a
16:47
little far behind but it's nice to see
16:49
them have this dedicated games app here
16:51
in iOS 26 the battery menu in iOS 26
16:54
gets a redesign i think it actually does
16:56
look a little bit better than the
16:57
Samsung one of course power mode you
16:59
still have adaptive power you can see
17:01
that there we talked about that earlier
17:03
this looks pretty nice it actually shows
17:04
you last charge 100% the time uh it
17:07
tells you some information about it i
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think Samsung could add a couple of
17:10
things here to make it look I like this
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the graph actually looks really nice
17:13
here with the average right next to it
17:15
and shows that as well i think Samsung
17:17
could clean it up a little bit it
17:18
doesn't have to be exactly like this but
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I do want to give Apple props for that
17:21
and then also the photos app is
17:24
something that they did a really nice
17:25
redesign on here in iOS 26 gallery still
17:28
looks great on 1 UI 8 but I do give
17:30
Apple props because their photos app was
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a mess before anyway my conclusion is if
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you're a Samsung die hard iOS 26 isn't
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going to give you a reason to switch
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over to an iPhone anytime soon 1 UI 8
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still looks amazing has more
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multitasking features apple decided once
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again to skip multitasking on their
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large phones altogether they brought
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some nice multitasking to the iPad but
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still nothing on the iPhone like pop-up
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windows which you guys have seen me
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using with Google Keep here even split
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screen multitasking proper multitasking
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nothing like that on the iPhone as I
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said before Galaxy AI still way behind
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Apple Intelligence in pretty much every
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conceivable way apple did not mention
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anything about the new contextually
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aware Siri so a lot of these features
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that are available over here in Galaxy i
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don't even exist uh on the Apple devices
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just yet i'm sure when Apple releases it
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it's going to be quite good but it might
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be too late because Samsung and Google
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have been doing so many great things
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with Gemini um and Galaxy that it may be
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hard to catch up anyway let me know what
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you guys think about iOS 26 versus 1 UI
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8 the design of course being a Samsung
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guy I'm still a big fan of 1 UI 8 i
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think Samsung did a great job there's
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still a couple elements of blur here and
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there uh some of those cool effects like
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the moving glass effect that I showed
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you guys you know these are little
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touches that Samsung can maybe add here
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or there but those aren't things you
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know usability things or UI look things
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that are going to make me jump ship
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curious what you guys think let me know
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in the comments below and I'll see you
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guys in the next one thanks so much for
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watching
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