Samsung One UI 7 shown with huge animation improvements in leaked video

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Samsung's updated Android operating system skin, One UI 7, has been cooking for a while and faced a number of delays. If leakers are to be believed, it will be one of the biggest One UI updates in some time.

A new video of the One UI 7 skin in action popped on X via the poster TechKhaled (via Sammobile), who credited the video to the regular Samsung leaker Ice Universe. We looked around Ice Universe's various social media accounts, from X (nee Twitter) to YouTube and Weibo and could not find any posts featuring this video. It's not out of the realm that they shared the video with TechKhaled, but we're not sure at this point.

Despite that, TechKhaled's video shows off an Android-based system with fluid animations and "non-linear" and "parallel" motions.

Non-linear refers to animations that move in alternate paths for apps and widgets as they open or close. You can see this as the app windows fall into their related icons. Parallel refers to a new animation that begins before the previous one ends.

That said, we may be several months away from getting our hands on One UI 7. The One UI 7 public beta is supposed to appear before the end of 2024, but we have yet to see a firm date on that rollout.

This means that anything we see in video leaks is likely to change between now and that beta and, eventually, the finished release. 

At the beginning of October, Samsung confirmed during the Samsung Developers Conference that One UI 7 would be available at launch for the Galaxy S25 series, which should launch in mid-January 2025.

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Scott Younker is the West Coast Reporter at Tom’s Guide. He covers all the lastest tech news. He’s been involved in tech since 2011 at various outlets and is on an ongoing hunt to build the easiest to use home media system. When not writing about the latest devices, you are more than welcome to discuss board games or disc golf with him. He also handles all the Connections coverage on Tom's Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game since it released.