Samsung’s Smart Widgets are frustratingly not available on all One UI 4.1 phones
With the introduction of Samsung’sGalaxy S22 lineup, we also got to meetOne UI 4.1, the latest release of its Android software. Shortly after the phones themselves landed, that software update also started to trickle down to its older devices, both high-end and mid-range alike. But while the update for theGalaxy S21 seriesseems largely identical to what we got on the S22, One UI 4.1 for other phones is apparently missing out on some features — most notably, Smart Widgets are nowhere to be seen.
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Why might Samsung do that? Well, in the case of the Galaxy A52 5G, you might wonder if maybe Samsung wants to gatekeep access and make this feature flagship-exclusive. But even if that were the case, we’d sure expect premium foldable models to at least make the cut.
It’s not clear if Smart Widgets will end up rolling out to these foldable/mid-range phones in the future, and it’s possible things are just delayed for now. While a lot of people might not be mad about thisspecificomission, if Samsung’s going to arbitrarily hold back even more One UI features from certain phones, we might see a lot more upset users in the near future.
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