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TL;DR
- The One UI 7 rollout will mark the top of a fan-favorite characteristic.
- Samsung warns that will probably be discontinuing DeX for PC on Home windows OS.
- Customers will nonetheless have the ability to join their cell gadget to their PC via Hyperlink to Home windows.
One UI 7’s options have largely been a thriller, however leaks have helped make clear a number of the issues we will count on when it rolls out. Most lately, Samsung’s Spanish website spilled a number of the beans, exhibiting off new icons, a sensible notification heart, and a brand new lock display. In the meantime, Samsung UK shared a stunning, but not sudden, replace on the DeX app for PC on Home windows.
If you happen to’re unfamiliar with Samsung DeX, it’s an app that permits Galaxy house owners to open a separate window on their PC to entry their gadget’s display. Via this characteristic, the person can seamlessly transfer recordsdata between the 2 gadgets. The title DeX is derived from “Desktop eXperience.”
Samsung lately up to date the DeX page on its UK web site. It’s straightforward to overlook, however in case you scroll right down to the underside of the web page, you’ll discover some positive print mentioning One UI 7 and the way it will have an effect on the DeX app.
It seems that Samsung plans to discontinue the Home windows app. The corporate states:
The DeX for PC on Home windows OS will finish assist from One UI 7 model. We encourage clients to attach cell phone and PC via the Hyperlink to Home windows characteristic. To make use of the “Hyperlink to Home windows” characteristic, discuss with the next web site (Connected Experience page↗)
Hyperlink to Home windows affords comparable capabilities, so it is sensible that Samsung is discontinuing its assist of the DeX Home windows app. It’s vital to notice that solely the Home windows app is being discontinued, not DeX itself. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to lengthen your cellphone display to your PC by connecting a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Nonetheless, because it’s a fan-favorite app, it nonetheless stings a bit to learn the information.
The DeX Home windows app gained’t be the one characteristic shedding assist as soon as the One UI 7 rollout begins. Assist for downloading third-party edge panels may even be going the way in which of the dodo quickly.
