Zack Ki Danis / Android Authority
Samsung Dax has been going on for eight years, and for many, it has become the main part of the Samsung experience. Dex gives us the ability to transform our Samsung phone and tablets into highly portable laptop changes, provided that everything you need is Android apps and a browser. Although Dax has gained a lot of features since its introduction, it is still the same as it was in 2017. This is changing with an UI 8, however, Samsung has rebuilt Dex on Android 16’s desktop mode.
There are possibilities of greatness, but Samsung has to take an important step backwards to prepare to move forward, and the Dax experience lacks features and stability.
Are you looking forward to the new dex?
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Efficiency
Mashal Rehman / Android Authority
Although an UI 8 Z is stable on folds and flip 7, it is still a son on my Galaxy S25, so I can help some of these problems I am facing. The first problem I am facing is a resolution. By default, the DEX will not exceed 1080p, the Multiuster will be enabled with high resolutions with good lock modules. Remove the “I <3 Samsung Dex" menu from an UI 8 and New Dex Militters and toggle high resolution for external display "in the Main Multicaster menu. Unfortunately, when the toggle gets, it doesn't work, and my S25 will not let me go above 1080p to look very vague. I double checked my HDMI cable and adapter with my S24 ultra, if they had a mistake, but this phone worked at 1440p without any problem.
Usually performance is a problem. This should not be surprising. Android 16’s desktop mode, which is based, is not nearing the end and often falls and destroys. This new version of Dax is better than the pixel experience, but not much, and it is a far away voice from polished and smooth decks we use. At one point, just to open the menu of the display settings, the menu destroyed my S25 and forced it to resume.
Missing features
Zack Ki Danis / Android Authority
As I mentioned in the last section, the “I <3 Samsung Dex" menu was removed from the Multiuster in a UI 8, and while the Resolution Toggle is available elsewhere, everything else in this menu is gone. The two lost good lock features that I miss the most are "run many apps at the same time" and when the mouse goes up or down, the ability to change the delay when the task bar and the header bar are repeated.
By default, Dax will allow you to run only five apps at a time on your external display. This is not enough for me, and losing the toggle that removes this restriction is strictly limited to how useful Dex can be. Likewise, I always found that if my mouse went near these areas, the task bar and header bars would return very fast, so I always used the slider in an UI 7 and older (picture above) to adjust it.
Then once again, they will not be used much in the new version of the slider Dax. Opening an app, a game, or video in a full screen does not hide the task bar or the header bar. I am hoping that this is a buggy instead of deliberately choosing, so we will see if it turns into future updates.
That has the potential
Bogin and lost properties are an essential evil. There is a lot of promise to implement Google’s desktop mode. Google had already worked with Samsung, and the partnership between these two companies has often done better in the past, especially the new version of Veros, which borrows a lot of debt.
Samsung often creates excellent features that struggle to get traction because developers are difficult to persuade their apps into a group of phones. Android 16 and ahead of bringing desktop mode to the public, the developers have a lot more encouragement to ride.
We cannot benefit more than how beneficial it is to put Google to Samsung, the back of Android. Instead of doing all on its own work and straping the dex in the upper part of Android, Samsung can now rely on Google to cook and contribute. Google sets Chrome OS and Android to integrate into the same platform, a dex made from above that can be a computer space that we have dreamed of since 2017.
Zack Ki Danis / Android Authority
This new version of Dax is Samsung, two steps behind to move forward. But it should be handled better, and should be. The Samsung Tablets already have two versions of the Dex. The classic, which is replaced by an UI 8 version we are discussing here, and a “new” dex. In the Galaxy Tab series, the “New” Dex is a parade down version that uses a regular Android launcher instead of desktops and already opens all apps in the window.
Samsung should have taken this point in an UI 8. Certainly, the existence of the “new” Dex on the tab series must have complicated the name, but it would be better than the situation we find ourselves. There are people who regularly use Daxes for everything from media consumption to work laptops on TV. There is a chance that Samsung will work faster and restore functionality before an UI 8 widespread roll, but if not, the new version of Dax should be an option, not that choice has been denied.
What do you think about the future of Samsung Dax? Does it look bright, or may the end begin? Tell us in the comments.
