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TL;DR
- Samsung is introducing a new Camera Continuity feature in its upcoming One UI 7 update.
- Camera Continuity lets you take photos and scan documents on your Galaxy phone, then continue working on them on your Galaxy tablet or PC.
- This will work with the Samsung Notes and Samsung Internet apps, but the feature is not yet available.
One of the best reasons to buy a Samsung phone is to be able to take advantage of Samsung’s ever-growing ecosystem. Samsung has created a whole suite of apps and services available on its devices, and has also created a number of software features that take advantage of this fact. The “Continue apps on other devices” feature, for example, lets you pick up where you left off when using the Samsung Internet or Samsung Notes apps. With the upcoming One UI 7 update, this feature will get even better with the addition of camera continuity.
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One UI 7 presents camera continuitya feature designed to streamline workflows between Galaxy devices. Camera Continuity will allow you to capture a photo or scan a document on your Galaxy phone and continue working on it seamlessly on another Galaxy device, such as a Galaxy Book PC. This integration will be available in Samsung Internet and the Samsung Notes app, but it will only work if your devices are signed into the same Samsung account, are within Bluetooth range, and are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Unfortunately, we can’t demonstrate the camera continuity feature, as it only appears to be available on the Samsung Galaxy S24 running One UI 7 beta 2. On other devices, such as the Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360, it There is no indication of functionality. being active, even in the “Continue apps on other devices” settings page. This suggests that updates to the operating system and affected applications are likely necessary.
Although the Samsung Notes app already offers cross-device syncing, as it lets you manually insert photos into synced notes, camera continuity could streamline this process. The existing shared notes feature in the Samsung Notes app serves a different purpose, enabling collaborative editing similar to Google Docs.
The One UI 7 update also brings other improvements to the “continue apps on other devices” feature. If you haven’t noticed, the feature is now simply called “continue on other devices.” That’s because it now does more than just work with your apps, including syncing your saved Wi-Fi networks between devices. Samsung devices already support syncing your saved Wi-Fi networks with Samsung Cloud, so this isn’t, strictly speaking, a new feature.
Additionally, the settings page now suggests support for “other apps” beyond Samsung Internet and Samsung Notes. Previous versions of the One UI explicitly listed only these two apps, so this wording change may indicate a possible future expansion of this feature.
Overall, One UI 7’s improvements to cross-device integration, including camera continuity, storage sharing, and camera sharing, strengthen the synergy between Galaxy phones and Galaxy Book PCs. These additions make Samsung’s ecosystem even more attractive to people looking for seamless interoperability between their devices.
