- Samsung’s Smart Select feature has been revamped in One UI 6.1.1 with a new launch animation, toolbar UI, and the ability to tap on text or images.
- Smart Select is a feature that lets users draw on the screen of their Galaxy phone or tablet to select an area and perform various actions.
- With the revamp, though, one feature has seemingly been cut: the ability to capture an area from a video as a GIF animation.
Google’s Circle to Search feature has been praised left and right since its debut on the Galaxy S24 series earlier this year, as it speeds up something a lot of us do everyday: look up information on some on-screen text or image. It’s particularly useful for people like me who cover tech, since it lets us quickly select text or images to copy to the clipboard. But that aspect of Circle to Search—on-screen text and image selection—is something that Samsung users have long been able to do, without using Google Lens or third-party tools. Smart Select in One UI, for example, lets users draw on their screen with their finger or an S Pen to select an area and perform actions, such as sharing or saving the selection. And in the most recent One UI 6.1.1 update, Samsung has given Smart Select a bit of a glow up, with revamped animations, an updated toolbar UI, and the ability to tap on text or images.
One UI 6.1.1 is the latest version of Samsung’s mobile operating system. It’s based on Android 14 and made its debut on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 last week. Point updates typically don’t bring a lot of major new features, so we didn’t expect to find much in the update apart from the new Galaxy AI features that Samsung promised. However, we noticed that the “Smart Select” feature, which is available on S Pen devices through the Air Command menu or on other Galaxy devices through the “edge panels” overlay, was quietly updated in One UI 6.1.1.