{"id":46211,"date":"2025-07-29T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46211\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:41:10","slug":"how-to-enable-full-screen-mode-in-samsung-dex-on-one-ui-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46211\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable full screen mode in Samsung DeX on One UI 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

TL;DR<\/p>\n

Samsung\u2019s new DeX in One UI 8 has a hidden \u201cImmersive\u201d mode that enables a true full screen experience, hiding the app header and taskbar.
\nTo enable it, you must first maximize an app, then long-press the same maximize button to reveal a hidden menu with the \u201cImmersive\u201d option.
\nThis unintuitive method initially led users to believe the full screen feature was removed.<\/p>\n

Samsung made some big changes to DeX in its latest One UI 8<\/a> release. The company killed its classic DeX mode<\/a> in favor of a new experience built on top of Android\u2019s native Desktop Mode. The shift will make it easier for Samsung to borrow from and contribute new features to Android\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

For some more context, Samsung dropped a lot of features<\/a> when it remade DeX in One UI 8. When we tried watching a video in One UI 8\u2019s new DeX, the app header bar and taskbar always remained visible. In contrast, both bars automatically disappeared when watching videos in One UI 7\u2019s classic DeX.<\/p>\n

\"FullWatching a full screen video in classic DeX on One UI 7\"WatchingWatching a full screen video in the new DeX in One UI 8<\/p>\n

This was especially odd because Android 16\u2019s Desktop Mode<\/a> \u2014 which DeX in One UI 8 is based on \u2014 hides both bars when you watch a video in full screen. Since none of the buttons in the app header offered a way to hide the interface, we assumed there was simply no way to enter a true full screen mode while using the new DeX.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, a reader pointed us to a comment<\/a> from Reddit user horgeluem, who discovered the solution: a hidden \u201cImmersive\u201d mode that hides both the app header bar and the taskbar. Here\u2019s how to enable it:<\/p>\n

First, left-click the maximize button to make the app fill the screen.
\nNext, hold down left-click on the same button until a dropdown menu appears with three options: Immersive, Restore, and Resize.
\nFinally, select \u201cImmersive\u201d to enter true full screen mode.<\/p>\n

\"Immersive\"Fullscreen<\/p>\n

Why Samsung buried this option behind a long-press menu without any visual cues is a mystery, but we\u2019re glad it\u2019s there. Hopefully, Samsung makes this option more discoverable in a future update.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this Immersive mode option is missing from most apps in Android 16\u2019s native Desktop Mode. The only app I could find it in is the Linux Terminal, specifically within its new graphical display mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Android\"Linux<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear why the option isn\u2019t more widely available, you thankfully don\u2019t need it to watch videos in full screen on stock Android, as that works automatically.<\/p>\n

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