by Sumit Adhikari | Mar 30, 2026 | News, One UI, Samsung Apps
Samsung’s Now Bar is designed to surface real-time information from apps, but it comes with a major limitation. Only first-party Samsung apps and a handful of approved partners can display content there. For everyone else, including popular utilities like...
by Sumit Adhikari | Jan 27, 2026 | News, One UI
Now Bar is becoming more useful in Samsung’s One UI 8.5 update, thanks to a new addition: missed call support. The feature already surfaces active calls directly on the lock screen, and the latest update expands that functionality to ensure you don’t miss...
by Abhinav Anand | Jan 26, 2026 | News, One UI, Tutorial
Now Bar, as you may know, supports live sports scores from Google. But if you’ve been trying to get it working by following teams and digging through settings, there’s a much simpler method that works instantly. You can just pin the live game from the Google app in...
by Binay Konwar | Dec 8, 2025 | News, One UI
Samsung’s next major Android 16-based update, One UI 8.5, will bring several meaningful improvements to its user experience. One such upgrade is the support for the Clock app’s Alarm feature within the Now Bar. This will definitely help you manage time-sensitive...
by Sumit Adhikari | Nov 19, 2025 | News, One UI
Samsung is deep into the development of One UI 8.5, the next major version of its Android skin set to debut with the Galaxy S26 series. Early internal builds are already revealing some of the changes in store, and two of the latest additions stand out. Samsung is...