While the development of the One UI 8 Based on Android 16, they continue to sprout small but interesting news that is worth discovering together. Today we focus on notifications from the locking screenwhich mark a partial return only icon Below the clock: an ideal function for minimal lovers, but which has been almost completely removed by Samsung with the update to One UI 7. Let’s find out everything in detail.
With One UI 8, are notifications with icon under the clock returned? Yes and no
After the delays of the start of the Rollout of the One UI 7 (left only in April for the Galaxy S24 series), Samsung has accelerated and has now reached most of the models compatible with the update. To remedy the most dilated timing and Google’s “haste” in release Android 16 stable, the manufacturer has decided to set aside the intermediate versions (which will return with the Galaxy S26, apparently) to devote themselves quickly to the One UI 8.
At the moment the Galaxy S25 series has arrived at Beta 2, and the stable update should arrive by the summer (after the absolute debut on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 and Galaxy Z Fold7 in early July). Although the new version brings with them less novelty than the One UI 7, further small changes as we put to deepen are continuing to appear: this time we are talking in particular about the notifications of the block screen.
As you probably know, inside the menu “Settings> Notifications> Notifications blocking screen“, On One UI it is possible to choose between three styles:”Dot“,” “Icon” And “Cards“. The last one is the one usually preferred by users, and allows you to show notifications completely in the lock screen, but minimal lovers prefer the” icon “style. The latter shows on the lock screen Only app icons who sent notifications, exactly as happens in the Always-on display screen: up to the One UI 6, the icons were shown below the clock, but with the One UI 7 they were moved at the top left, as if they were the notifications normally proposed by the status bar at unlocked smartphones.
A report on Reddit relating to One UI 8 Beta 2 He made hope for a moment to lovers of the pre-one IU 7 icons, but actually It is just a partial return of the previous aspect.
The row of one UI 6 -style icons appears only and exclusively When the watch and widgets below it do not leave enough space to show notifications cards in the traditional way.
Who knows if Samsung will decide to listen to users who love notifications through icon and restore the previous view. More likely that some Lockstar updates may think about it, the appreciated Good Lock Module that offers greater customization possibilities for the lock screen.
