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Josh Render

One UI 8 could make setting your Samsung Galaxy phone up much simpler — here’s how

Best Samsung phones 2025.

Usually, setting up a new phone is a pretty straightforward process, but even the best Samsung phones still have one annoying tendency when it comes to picking navigation preferences. However, that could soon change with One UI 8.

In a recent report, SammyGuru discovered evidence that future releases of One UI 8 could allow users to choose between gesture and button navigation options while setting up the phone. This would give users the freedom to choose alongside the rest of set-up, rather than Samsung defaulting to the three-button option in the current version. This forces users to go into the display settings to change to gestures themselves if they wish to do so.

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