If you feel like your Galaxy phone eats up more of your day than it should, Samsung’s One UI 9 update might be the fix you didn’t know you needed. The update packs a handful of Galaxy AI features designed to save you time on everyday tasks, from recording videos to editing photos to planning your morning.
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Samsung One UI 9 Features: My Fancam Keeps Your Subject in Frame
Anyone who has tried to film a school performance or a wedding dance knows the struggle: keeping one person in frame while they move around. My Fancam solves it with Galaxy AI. Open the Gallery, select a video, tap the Galaxy AI icon and choose My FanCam, then select your subject and tap Follow. The phone then tracks that person and adjusts the framing automatically, so you can enjoy the moment instead of chasing it with your camera.
It is also a handy tool for grandparents or anyone who finds camera angles fiddly, since the phone does the tracking work for you.
Now Nudge and Now Brief: One UI 9 Features That Save You Taps
Now Nudge offers relevant shortcuts based on what is on your screen. When a friend messages about dinner plans, for example, a Calendar shortcut can pop up right there, so you can check your availability without leaving the chat and digging through apps.
Now Brief tackles busy mornings by pulling weather, calendar events, reminders and other personalized updates into a single briefing. Instead of bouncing between apps and getting sidetracked by notifications, you get a quick overview of the day in one place, depending on your devices and supported services.
Photo Assist in One UI 9 Edits Photos From a Typed Description
For anyone who returns from vacation with hundreds of photos and never gets around to editing them, Photo Assist acts like a personal editor. Instead of manually tweaking sliders, you describe the change you want, such as removing strangers from the background and brightening the photo while keeping colors natural, and the AI handles the edit.
Taken together, these One UI 9 features share one goal: fewer minutes fiddling with your phone, and more time for the things you actually picked it up to do.
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