Samsung’s One UI 7 will tame your notification panel with a brand new filtering system

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Samsung’s One UI 7 provides a brand new ‘filter notifications’ characteristic, which is positioned in Settings → Notifications → Superior settings.
Customers can select to filter notifications primarily based on three classes: Outdated notifications (acquired quite a lot of days in the past), Background actions (notifications from apps operating within the background), and Minimized notifications (notifications already set to be minimized).
Filtered notifications are grouped right into a “X extra notifications” capsule on the backside of the notification panel, guaranteeing all notifications stay accessible whereas prioritizing vital ones on the prime.

Samsung’s Android 15-based One UI 7, albeit late, is predicted to be a big replace that essentially alters a number of UI decisions we have come to anticipate from Samsung.

One UI 7 is already obtainable to check out in beta, and it’s anticipated to go reside for the broader viewers in steady someday in January — doubtlessly alongside the disclosing of the Galaxy S25 collection. In its first beta, One UI 7 has already unlocked entry to a vertical app drawer — one thing that the South Korean tech big has averted since its early TouchWiz days. Samsung has additionally launched a brand new Now Bar, which is analogous to Apple’s Stay Actions, alongside the long-coming break up between the notification and Fast Settings drawers.

The new weather widget in One UI 7 on a Galaxy S24 Ultra.

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The second One UI 7 beta dropped final week, bringing an choice to set your machine’s refresh charge from inside Recreation Booster, minor Fast Settings panel UI adjustments, and a bunch of bug fixes and general efficiency enhancements.

Whereas digging deeper into the second One UI 7 beta, Reddit person FragmentedChicken (by way of Android Authority) found a brand new characteristic that had largely gone unnoticed — and it goals to boost notification administration.

A screenshot of the Filter notifications setting screen.

The brand new characteristic is aptly named Filter notifications, and it may be accessed by navigating to Settings → Notifications → Superior settings. “Filter notifications which can be much less vital to you and present them as a bunch on the backside of your notification panel,” reads the characteristic’s description, with choices to decide on what sort of notifications are filtered out of your principal notification block:

Outdated notifications: Filter notifications acquired quite a lot of days in the past.
Background actions: Filter notifications used to point out that an app is operating within the background.
Minimized notification: Filter notifications set to be minimized in notification class settings.

Filtered notifications are neatly tucked away

Screenshots of One UI 7's notification filtering in action.

Supply: Android Authority

When enabled, the characteristic forces notifications that fall underneath the classes talked about above to cover inside a ‘X extra notifications’ capsule on the backside of your common notification panel, with ‘X’ denoting the variety of filtered notifications.

As seen within the screenshots above, with no filter possibility chosen, the background app KDE Join’s standing notification seems in the principle notification panel (first screenshot). With the ‘Background actions’ notification filter toggled on, solely KDE Join’s app icon is seen in a separate ‘extra notifications’ bubble (second screenshot). Tapping the bubble reveals all filtered notifications (third screenshot).

This basically makes it so that each one notifications, no matter their precedence, are accessible to you — however solely a very powerful ones stay entrance and heart.