Your Samsung phone's screen may never forgive you for downloading Android 14 early

Your Samsung phone’s screen may never forgive you for downloading Android 14 early،

Samsung’s smartphones are known for their beautiful AMOLED displays, but like other OLED panels, they are susceptible to burn-in, which is why the South Korean giant used a mechanism in One UI 5 to keep the displays pristine. It appears that the protection against burning is missing Since Android 14based on One UI 6.

A number of Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S23, Z Fold 5, S23 FE, Tab S9 and A34, have already received the Android 14 update. Samsung aims to update nearly 50 of its devices to Android 14 before the end of the year. But given the concerns expressed by some users, you may want to wait for the update to Android 14 for a certain time.

Screen burn-in or ghosting is permanent discoloration of areas on a screen. When an image is left on a screen for too long, some pixels are overused and degrade quickly, causing discoloration in certain areas. This is why screensavers were so popular back then. The idea is to move an image to ensure that no area of the screen remains lit for a long period of time.

Thanks to our short attention spans and our nature to get bored with what we’re doing every few minutes, we’re constantly switching between apps. But the navigation buttons and notification bar remain in the same place. This is the reason why One UI 5 periodically shifted the position of status bar icons such as battery, clock, wifi and signal by a few pixels.

This isn’t noticeable during everyday use, but Reddit user dragoslash mentioned an easy way to check it.

take a screenshot where the status bar is visible

rotate the screen to landscape then back to portrait (do this 5 times so that the elements drift over a significant amount of pixels)

open screenshot in samsung gallery

The status (and navigation) bar overlapping your screenshot should be visible and you should be able to notice if the status bar items have changed position. In One UI 6, they are static no matter what you do.

One UI 5 vs One UI 6 screenshot – Your Samsung phone screen may never forgive you for downloading Android 14 early

Screenshot of UI 5 versus UI 6

On One UI 6, the icons stay in the same place and this makes Samsung device screens work Android 14 likely to burn.

Samsung could resolve this issue in the coming days, but without any official assurances from the company, it’s hard to be sure. If you have already downloaded Android 14, you may find comfort in the fact that screen burn-in is rare and, unless you leave a static image on your phone for an unrealistically long time and at maximum brightness, you have nothing to worry about . And even if it does eventually happen, rest assured that burn-ins don’t make a screen non-functional, they just look annoying.

If you don’t want to take any chances, there are apps available in the Galaxy Store that can help you avoid this problem, like QuickStar, which lets you hide icons.