I will admit it: I’ve never been the biggest Samsung Dax user. Not because I don’t like it-I think it’s a gold standard for putting your phone into an outer display-but because I spend a lot of time with the Samsung phone in my pocket. The funny thing is that whenever I leave the galaxy ecosystem, this is fine when I need more Dax.
And now that it is about to make significant changes as part of an UI 8, I’m a bit worried. I don’t want to lose some of the features of Dax, even if it eventually leads to better experience in Android’s desktop mode. Here’s what I’m not looking forward to losing:
Lock Dax and Exit Dax saved my cloth
Headley Simonis / Android Authority
As I said, I’m not the biggest dex user – it just comes with the phone switching area dozens of times a year. Unfortunately, this often means that I forget the rules of how it is to work, accidentally got out of the dex when I just mean to reset a couple or two so that my life can be made a bit easier. Thankfully, Samsung had a solution: the ability to lock yourself in the dex or the ability to exit with just one button in the app drawer.
Right now, my most used feature in Dax is a simple little button called Lock Dax. In fact, it is just as easy as it makes so that I can’t get out of the dex unless I use biometrics to unlock my Galaxy S25, but it has become necessary for my needs. It has saved my bacon (or at least a few minutes of work) that I can count, preventing me from reopening Windows and detecting layouts based on my own mixup.
If I was Google, I will take notice. Android 16’s desktop mode needs a way to keep clumsy users like me in mind, and I think copying lockdakes is the easiest way. Either, or copy the Exit Dex and make sure I physically press my phone a button before closing the casting.
Of the Multiuster❤ Samsung Dax made it worth a good lock
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
Although I usually don’t like to download or use a good lock, I am ready to be exempt when it comes to Dax. Look, my problems usually center around the fact that the Galaxy Z Philip’s Flex window is very important for the basic things that are important, but it is much more useful when it comes to Dax. This allows me to run at one time and open the previous app quickly, and now it looks like Samsung will take it.
Fortunately, the Impsung Dex plugin is not completely away – it will be the article for the “high resolutions for external display” options, which allow you to benefit the most of your galaxy device’s crisp -resolution, but not even more. I will have the feature of “Run many apps at the same time”, which makes Dax a viable way to work in Chrome, Slack, Spatifs, Lightrooms, and some other people when I need to stand in a pinch in my laptop, but now my best guess is to return.
At least, I can only hope that Android 16’s desktop mode finally continued Chrome OS where you left the feature, the last time I left out of Dax, I allowed those apps to reopen.
Please do not force me in the Permanent Task Bar
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
Although my first two choices have been things I don’t want Samsung away from me, the next thing I have to get out of Dax in an UI 8 is to maintain the flexibility of my current task bar. Right now, the task bar is perfect-it appears when I need it, but when I am watching a full screen video or otherwise make a bigger display, it disappears. In the early version of an UI 8, though, it seems to be changing.
As my colleague Mashal Rehman found out, the task bar and the app header were about to be permanent. This means even if you are watching a full -screen YouTube video, catching our new C -Scott Brown Channel (Following my beloved on my partner Pixel), you will always see your task bar filled with apps on the bottom edge. If you have compiled your own app to meet your wallpaper, it is a little less noticeable, but still not my favorite format when I focus more on a video that will tell me everything about the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7.
I need to be able to pin apps on my desktop
Mashal Rehman / Android Authority
So far, I hope you realize that I’m not a Dax Pro. I accidentally get out of it, I keep trying to edit it, and sometimes I also have problems on how it handles full screen content. Even worse, I also know that if I am trying to do a lot of things together, I lose apps in Dax. Therefore, you can imagine my relief when I realized that Samsung apps me in the upper part of my steak just to ensure that they were not lost.
And, like everything in this list, it can change. Right now, the pin feature is missing from an UI 8, which means that each app is made equal and can easily lose somewhere in the middle of my busy work list. For some people, this may be fine – especially if they only do one or two in Dax at a time – but not. I want to be able to bounce among many tasks, but I know I need to look a slack all the time, which I can just really do with the pin feature.
If I get the right click, I want, okay, do something
Mashal Rehman / Android Authority
Last but at least, I grew up as a Windows baby. I remember that everything from Windows Vista to a young child had to use everything in Windows 8 and Windows 10 in college. Through each version, I had a feature that I can always trust: right. This is the fastest way to manage my desktop, access sharp settings and leave things to a recycling bin and drop it without droping.
So, when I found out that Samsung’s classic dex’s experience supported the same indicator, I was bowed down. I mean, copying this feature when I have learned my way around my computer, I have been the easiest way to keep using your software, so someone in Samsung may have heard closely.
I’m a Windows baby, I need my right click.
In implementation of its existing decks, right -clicking on the task bar opens the task bar settings, while a click on the desktop allows you to set your apps, clean the desktop or adjust your screen zoom. I only use the first two features, beyond my deep need to be mostly organized, but I still appreciate that the zoom is on this control. I am sure that one day I will need it too, but it will not be so easy if there is a way to a UI 8.
It seems that most Samsung’s right -click controls are going on his way, and I am not sure if his place will be like a long pressure indicator or if Android 16’s desktop mode will be a bit annoying about a feature that can be so easy.
Then once again, we have also seen that Samsung is committed to preserving many of its dexus features, which includes the integration of his pen, wallpaper settings, and wireless display options, so it may be some time before it has been made before the dex.
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