Samsung’s Now Nudge feature offers proactive suggestions powered by on-device AI. For example, you may see a suggestion to add an event to your calendar based on a text conversation. In general, this feature seems better at completing tasks correctly, but it still doesn’t show up very often. It is, however, nice that nudges now open apps in split-screen instead of taking you away from the content you’re viewing.
Samsung also gets even deeper Gemini AI integration with this release. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is preloaded, and it’s optimized for drag-and-drop and split-screen usage. That’s cool if you are a fan of Google’s AI research tool, which is admittedly one of the better things the company has done with LLMs.
More questionable is the expanded support for app automations, which debuted earlier this year on the Galaxy S26 series. The idea is that you can ask Gemini to complete a task for you, and it will use the appropriate app to get it done in the background. The list of supported apps has expanded to more than 40, including DoorDash, Temu, Airbnb, Delta, and Best Buy.
One UI can feel a little claustrophobic, but Samsung gets some things very right.
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Unsurprisingly, having Gemini operate even simple apps is very slow and fraught with errors. It gets there most of the time, but it’s nowhere near good enough that I’d trust the results without a thorough double-check. And at that point, why not just do it myself?
It’s not all AI retreads, though. Samsung has added something genuinely fantastic to its Galaxy AI portfolio, but it’s not the kind of AI it wants everyone talking about. As of the last version of One UI (and continuing in the version on the Fold), Samsung’s phone app does Google-style call screening. This is one of the biggest selling points for Pixel phones in this age of endless phone spam, and Samsung is finally on board.
