Ahead of Samsung’s launch which is supposedly sometime later this year, One UI 8 has revealed some new details about the Galaxy Z TriFold, including the ability to run three full apps at once.
As it stands today and has been the case for years, Samsung’s One UI can display three apps at once on larger displays, including the one on Galaxy Z Fold 7. But, as pictured above, this doesn’t work in the way you might want it to. One app runs across the width of the display, taking up the top or bottom half, while two other apps split the other half of the display, each ending up with their own quadrant.
It works well enough, but the form factor of a tri-fold device presents some interesting opportunities.
Findings by the folks over at SammyGuru in One UI 8 reveal that Samsung is planning to allow users to run three apps at once in a side-by-side configuration on the Galaxy Z TriFold’s main display. Or, at least that’s what some icons seem to suggest. We’ll have to wait to see this one in action, but it certainly makes sense.
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Beyond that, the TriFold will apparently morph your outer screen’s homescreen into a wider two-page layout on the main display, as is the case on Galaxy Z Fold 7. This doesn’t really come as a surprise, but it’s nice to see that Samsung isn’t going to throw three pages onto the main display.
The animation in One UI 8 also helps give us a really good idea of what the main display’s aspect ratio will look like.
Samsung is expected to release the Galaxy Z TriFold before the end of the year, but many details are still up in the air.
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