Samsung seems to be on a roll with its One UI 6.0 roadmap, as several devices are getting the update, and we are hoping that all 35+ devices will get the update by the end of the year. However, it appears that the users are experiencing a strange issue that is usually related to the hardware rather than the software itself.
The latest One UI 6.0 update seems to have the pixel shift feature not working, causing burn-in issues on Galaxy phones
Galaxy users have started reporting that after updating to One UI 6.0, they are experiencing screen burn-in issues, which is something OLED displays suffer from. However, seeing this happen because of a software update is rather strange. The easiest fix to handle this is a feature called pixel shift - you may have seen this on your OLED TVs or monitors, but Samsung does not make this feature available, so users don't go ahead and toggle it by accident. The pixel shift was enabled in One UI 5.0, but it appears that the feature is not working in the latest update.
A Reddit user explained how the pixel shift might not be working on the One U 6.0 updates. You can test it out by following the steps on your Galaxy smartphone running the latest update.
- Take a screenshot while the status bar is visible.
- Rotate the screen to landscape, then back to portrait (do it 5 times so the elements drift for a significant amount of pixels)
- Open the screenshot in the Samsung Gallery
You can see how this works below:
The screenshot above is from a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra still running One UI 5.0. If you look at the status bar, you can see the elements are overlapping. This is evidence of the fact that these elements have moved as they were supposed to. However, with One UI 6.0, this is not happening. You can check the screenshot below:
Looking at this, it does appear that the Galaxy devices running One UI 6.0 do not have the pixel shift feature turned on. Now, this is something that is related to software and can easily be fixed. So, I am really hoping that Samsung will issue the update soon. Although modern OLED panels are very resilient against burn-in issues, it is still something that haunts OLED users, and it would not be nice to experience.
News Source: Reddit
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