One UI (Android Pie) feature focus: 'Lift to wake' comes to Galaxy phones

Last updated: November 22nd, 2018 at 12:25 UTC+01:00

The One UI/Android Pie beta for the Galaxy S9 comes with a number of small nevertheless useful features. One of these is the Lift to wake gesture, which does exactly what the name suggests. When enabled, Lift to wakeallows yous to check your lockscreen for notifications and other information past merely bringing the phone up in front of your face.

'Lift to wake' gesture works great with biometric authentication

The Lift to wake gesture is especially useful if you unlock your device via biometric options like Intelligent Scan or the iris sensor. That's because you can now have the phone kickoff scanning your optics and/or face up by just lifting it up, instead of having the press the power key to plough the screen on. And if you disable the need for swiping on the lock screen for the biometrics to piece of work,Lift to wakemakes the unlocking process even faster.

In fact, in our testing, the iris sensor sometimes started scanning even earlier the screen was turned on. Of course, the fingerprint sensor is still the fastest mode to unlock the Galaxy S9 or Milky way S9+. Only theElevator to wakegesture is nice to have, and it's proficient to see Samsung finally bringing it to its smartphones. It likewise works great despite this being the first Android Pie beta release.

Y'all can find theLift to wakegesture option in the Avant-garde features » Motions and gestures menu in the telephone's Settings app. Do try it out if you're running the One UI beta and tell us how it works for you lot by leaving a comment. And for more on what's new with Android Pie and I UI, check out our ongoing coverage in the One UI (Android Pie) characteristic focus series of posts.

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