A One UI 4.0 camera interface change that's great for the average customer

Concluding updated: September 21st, 2021 at 17:34 UTC+01:00

My Dad isn't very tech savvy. He moved to smartphones a lot later than my mom and pretty much every other person in my family unit, nuclear or extended. To this day, he presses downwardly on the touchscreen similar one used to on those resistive touchscreens you constitute on old Nokia phones instead of tapping it gently.

When I switched him to a Galaxy Note 10 last year, it was the showtime time he started using a flagship telephone. It was as well his kickoff phone with more than a single rear camera, and I thought he'd like it because he loves taking pictures. So he starts using it, and a couple of weeks later one fine mean solar day when the weather condition was lovely, I saw him have the Annotation x out… and compression to zoom on the screen to zoom in.

That'southward right: My Dad had no idea that those three tree-like icons (or are they leaves?) on the viewfinder let yous zoom in on things with a unmarried tap, or zoom out to use the ultra-wide photographic camera. He'd been using pinch-to-zoom ever since I gave him the phone, and information technology'south when I realized how Samsung's user interface — and smartphones in general — can often be confusing for the average consumer who isn't a geek.

Thankfully, Samsung is finally addressing the camera thing with One UI four.0. No longer do you get tree icons on the viewfinder for zooming in and zooming out. The camera interface now simply lists the zoom levels – 0.6x, 1x, 3x, and 10x on the Galaxy S21 Ultra, for instance.

It'south a modest change, just it'southward 1 that will make a deviation. My Dad already knows what the buttons do, but for many consumers out in that location who may not accept figured it out or will pick up a new Galaxy telephone in the future, it will exist a useful detail.

Wouldn't you lot agree?