One UI 7 brings Live Notifications for your favorite media apps, including YouTube and Spotify

The One UI 7 hype is actual, as Samsung lastly will get round to updating its gadgets to Android 15, months after the platform replace was launched and others acquired on board. As individuals get their fingers on the replace, they’re recognizing options that haven’t been clearly talked about as a part of the official changelog. Because it seems, One UI 7 is implementing a dwell notification for any app that places media controls within the notification shade.

My colleague Zac Kew-Denniss noticed that newer One UI 7 builds (i.e., these with the April 2025 safety patch) can show a dwell notification for any app that places out an ongoing media playback management within the notification shade.

Samsung’s official One UI 7 changelog woefully under-explains this characteristic because it fully skips mentioning media controls:

• Actual-time notifications for ongoing duties: Actual-time notifications are displayed on the lock display Now bar, prime of the notification panel, and standing bar that will help you perceive ongoing duties. You possibly can examine the standing of timers, voice recordings, and train in actual time, and shortly carry out associated duties.

This conduct might be observed on apps like Spotify, YouTube Music, and YouTube when enjoying again content material regionally or via a casting session. Apps like Netflix don’t show a notification when enjoying again regionally, however you may get a dwell notification for those who provoke a casting session.

To see this characteristic, you want the newer One UI 7 builds on both the steady department, just like the builds rolling out for the Galaxy S24, or newer betas. You received’t spot this characteristic on early One UI 7 builds, even the steady releases that began off with the Galaxy S25, which is why this characteristic flew below the radar.

Sammyguru introduced consideration again to the characteristic, noting that it helps “cross-device sync.” The report doesn’t correctly contextualize it with extra info, however presumably, it means you can management YouTube playback on different gadgets even with out being related to the identical Wi-Fi community.

YouTube provides playback controls for related good gadgets already, however you should be on the identical Wi-Fi community, and it’s a regular notification, not a dwell notification. This setting is current below your Android TV’s settings, below the Google Solid possibility as “Permit others to regulate your solid media.” Listed below are screenshots of what that appears like on my Google Pixel 9 Professional XL operating the most recent Android 16 Beta:

You’ll see that the Solid controls in the usual notification are pretty barebones (and require you to be on the identical Wi-Fi community because the TV). In distinction, One UI shows a a lot richer dwell notification and can achieve this for YouTube regardless of not being on Wi-Fi.

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