94 PCWorld APRIL 2019HERE’S HOW SAMSUNG ONE UI TIPS AND TRICKS
- TURN ON GESTURE
NAVIGATION
The most important change to One UI is
the addition of gesture navigation.
Samsung has taken a different tack than
Google or Apple with its method.
Samsung has basically
turned the navigation bar
button into gestures:
Swipe up from the left to
see your recent apps,
swipe up from the
center to go home, and
swipe up from the right to
go back. It’s a simple,
smart system, but when
you upgrade, it’ll be off by
default. To turn it on, head
over to Settings > Display,
and select Navigation bar.
Inside you’ll see two
options for navigation type:
buttons and full-screen gestures.
Tap the circle next to gestures,
and the familiar nav bar buttons
will turn into three thin lines at the
bottom of the display
indicating where you can
swipe. Once you get comfortable
with it, you can go commando
and turn off the indicators
altogether by flipping the
Gesture hints toggle.- OPEN APPS IN
SPLIT-SCREEN MODE
Samsung has changed the behavior of the
recent apps screen in One UI, now that apps
scroll horizontally rather than vertically. With
that comes a new way to interact with your
You can choose to have buttons, lines, or nothing on your One
UI navigation bar.Using an app in split screen is way easier to set up in One UI.