The terrible new battery icon from Samsung proves Apple well – here is how
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Sometimes it takes a while to notice the more subtle elements of the software design of a telephone – but that is not always for the best reasons.
To take One onion 7For example. Samsung‘s newest mobile operating system Update marked a large visual innovation that brought new icons, fonts and color schemes to the visual elements of the software.
As a member of the TechRadar team discovered, however, there is one aspect of the latest Android wrapper from Samsung that is less logical than ever before.
To cut the chase, the new battery icon of Samsung is confusing vague and difficult to recognize. Techradar’s Homes editor Ruth Hamilton tells me that when she updated her Galaxy A54 At one onion 7 she couldn’t even tell what the battery icon was.
“I left the onion update to run at night and the next morning I could not work for the life of me what the icon was in my phone in my phone,” Ruth said.
“At that time it was half dark, half light, with a 45 in the middle. I was stunned. Did I have 45 messages? Certainly not.”
Ruth added: “Amidst the general mild disorientation that follows every onion tweak for something that you use regularly, I just don’t have a branchy. In the absence of the usual visual instructions – a percentage of symbol or a suggestion of a terminal – I could not find out what I looked at.”
As the above details, the new Battery icon of Samsung is in fact just a large oval that can optionally have a number that is planted in the middle. It is more circular than rectangular and far from the clear battery -shaped icon used in one onion 6.
Even if someone who tests and assesses the best smartphones for a living, I have to admit that I only really recognize the icon as a battery meter thanks to the placement in the right under corner of the screen.
Apple is fine
I had just finished writing a piece about it Apple’s new liquid glass design and return to Skeuomorfism (That is digital design based on real things) When Ruth contacted.
If you ask me, Samsung’s misstep with one onion 7 battery icon shows that Apple made the right call by choosing to increase realism with iOS 26” iPados 26And MacOS 26.
Tech is moving forward in a way that can separate things from their original inspiration – take the break piccim, which was inspired by the Caesura, punctuation that was used in poetry to mark a moment of rest. I think you have trouble finding someone on the street who could tell you without looking it up (like I did).
But this must be done in a way that does not alienate parts of the user base. Sticking Apple to the pictographic battery icon for liquid glass is a safe gamble, but part of the Best Android -Phones Push things carefully with more abstract rectangles that still feel familiar enough.
As others have noticed here at TechRadar, Liquid Glass has its own problems with readability, but at least everything is quite recognizable (if you can actually see it). And in general I am a big fan of the charming, colorful presentation of one onion 7 when I do one of the Best Samsung -Phones.
That said, the battery icon is a reminder that UI design should serve just as much with the daily user as the smartphone specialist. Do you find Samsung’s new battery icon confusing? Let us know in the comments below.
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