- Samsung’s new DeX in One UI 8 has a hidden “Immersive” mode that enables a true full screen experience, hiding the app header and taskbar.
- To enable it, you must first maximize an app, then long-press the same maximize button to reveal a hidden menu with the “Immersive” option.
- This unintuitive method initially led users to believe the full screen feature was removed.
Samsung made some big changes to DeX in its latest One UI 8 release. The company killed its classic DeX mode in favor of a new experience built on top of Android’s native Desktop Mode. The shift will make it easier for Samsung to borrow from and contribute new features to Android’s Desktop Mode. However, the new version of DeX is missing some features from the classic experience, and one particularly puzzling omission was what appeared to be the ability to go full screen. It turns out that Samsung DeX in One UI 8 does support full screen mode, but enabling it is not at all intuitive.
For some more context, Samsung dropped a lot of features when it remade DeX in One UI 8. When we tried watching a video in One UI 8’s new DeX, the app header bar and taskbar always remained visible. In contrast, both bars automatically disappeared when watching videos in One UI 7’s classic DeX.