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Samsung One UI 7.0 Update Adds YouTube Now Bar Controls To Galaxy Smartphones
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Jun 26, 2025
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jeff from Sami Guru back here again
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today and today we're taking a look at a
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brand new feature that Samsung has added
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to the now bar in 1 UI7 yes as a lot of
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you guys are starting to receive the
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stable update this week samsung has
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started rolling out YouTube support for
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the now bar and live notifications which
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means you'll be able to control your
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YouTube play pause etc seek track and
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all that good stuff from the now bar and
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live notifications now the
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implementation's a little bit different
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depending on the device that you're
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using it on i have here the S24 Ultra
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which is still on 1 UI7 beta 6 right now
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because we haven't received the stable
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update in the US just yet my ZFold
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special edition which is on 1 UI7 stable
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because this is a Korean phone it got it
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on April 7th and my Galaxy S25 Ultra
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which of course is running the March
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update hasn't received the April update
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just yet this one does not have live
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notifications yet for media so we'll
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talk about that today we show you guys
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how the YouTube live notifications in
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the now bar looks before we get started
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if you guys are interested so let's just
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go in here really quickly and I'll show
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you these three different versions
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there's one big difference on the now
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bar so if we go into lock screen and
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AODD on each you'll notice that on the
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Galaxy S25 Ultra you do not have media
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player as one of the options see media
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player here and here but you don't have
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that on the S25 Ultra so because of that
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the way this YouTube uh live
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notification/nowbar looks is a little
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different depending on the phone now I
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received this starting on the ZFold SE
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when I got the stable 1 UI7 update on
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Monday then the S25 Ultra I received a
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Google Play system update today which
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was 12 megabytes and then the YouTube
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live notification started working so let
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me show you guys if I go in here let me
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just
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uh there let's see let's go back you'll
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notice it's not up there in the live
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notifications however if we go to the
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lock screen here you've got your YouTube
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and you can expand it your media player
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right there now what you'll notice right
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now is on the S25 Ultra the media player
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uh still lives here the media output
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lives in the quick settings so that's on
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the S25 Ultra now if I go into the ZFold
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SE it's a little bit different now
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you'll notice not only do I get the
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picture and picture popup for YouTube I
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also get my live notification for
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YouTube and over here I've got my
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playback pause everything those live
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controls are there and of course I also
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have that on the lock screen which I can
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show you guys here if I move that phone
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out of the way you still have it on the
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lock screen right there just like you do
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on the S25 Ultra and of course the
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pop-up looks very similar both of these
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of course there's a smaller screen on
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the ZFold SE so a little bit different
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look and that's mainly because the live
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notifications don't exist yet on the
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Galaxy S25 Ultra you can't get those
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live notifications for the media player
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because it's not an option so you don't
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get the live notification chip now on
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the S24 Ultra on the beta it runs
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exactly the same way as it does over
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here on the ZFold SE if we go some
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people making some crazy comments you
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know you got to fire back you got to
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fire back when people make some crazy
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comments on your channel if we go over
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here play this video you'll see you've
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got live notification up here now one
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thing I will notice is I will note is
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that if you notice here I do not have
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the YouTube picture and picture so I had
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YouTube picture and picture when I close
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it over here I've noticed this is kind
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of hit or miss the picture and picture
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doesn't always work with the live
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notification chip and yes you do have
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the controls there and of course they're
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also on the lock screen as well as you
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would expect we can show this one off on
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the lock screen there as well but the
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picturein picture does not always seem
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to work on the ZFold SE and the S24
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Ultra this is great news obviously that
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we have YouTube controls and the live
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notifications it should come to the S25
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series in the same form that is over
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here namely the live notification chip
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once it gets media player uh capability
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on the S25 series and I imagine that
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also means if you look over here you
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have duplicated this here the quick
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settings you have the controls and then
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you also have them inside the
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notification shade so you should have
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duplicated controls here and here once
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it comes to the S25 series now this does
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not work with any other streaming app so
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far that I can tell i tried Netflix
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Disney Plus Hulu Amazon Prime Video that
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seems to be because of DRM copyright
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concerns with those particular pieces of
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content so I don't know if it's going to
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come to other media playing apps but
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obviously YouTube is a really big one
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and an important one and Samsung and
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Google of course have this really deep
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integration and partnership so that
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makes a lot of sense the other thing
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that I noticed on my ZFold SE which is
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actually how I originally noticed this
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is if you take a look last night I my
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son was watching his uh show when he
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goes to sleep he watches a movie every
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night my four-year-old The Snail and the
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Whale and I noticed my TV is connected
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although I wasn't actively casting it's
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connected to my Samsung account and my
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YouTube account it popped up up here in
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my live notifications on the ZFold SE
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allowing me to control the other device
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you see how it says YouTube other device
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i was able to pause play seek through
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the video even though I left the house
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after he fell asleep I let it keep
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playing just to test i ran to the store
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for a few minutes i was still able to
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see kind of where it was playing and
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pause and play it from my phone and uh
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my wife was at home with the TV and she
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said that the controls were working so I
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find that very interesting kind of some
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duplication of functionality that Google
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already has if you're a YouTube Premium
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subscriber where you can control those
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things across you know sync them across
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your devices anyway very excited about
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this obviously bringing YouTube live
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notifications and to the now bar is a
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big deal hope you guys enjoyed this make
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out i'll see you in the next one