Easy way to test this:
- take a screenshot where 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 Samsung Gallery
The status (and navigation) bar overlapping your screenshot should be visible, and you should be able to notice whether the status bar elements have moved their position. In One UI 6 they are static no matter what you do.
Screenshot from S23 Ultra running One UI 6. All status bar emenets perfectly overlap each other, indicating they are static.
Screenshot from Note20 Ultra running One UI 5. All status bar elements are moving, indicating OLED burn in protection is working.
This is bad on OLED screens as they will degrade uneven in that area. I have reported this problem to Samsung, but you should do it as well in order to raise as much awareness as possible so it gets fixed ASAP.
Note: Oddly enough, burn in protection works fine for the navigation bar.
I didn’t know this was a thing. I have always been worried about burn-in on the status bar, good to know it has a burn-in protection :D Also won’t be updating to OneUI 6 for a few months until it’s working properly and stable.
I rolled back. Not a simple process but instructions are on YouTube.
OneUi 6 felt very beta in so many areas.
I though burn-in is undetectable on screenshots. This to me looks like a ui bug. I am wrong?
Guy : Doctor, my Girlfriend is pregnant but we always use protection and the rubber never broke. How is it possible? Doctor : Let me tell you a story: "There was once a Hunter who always carried a gun wherever he went. One day he took out his Umbrella instead of his Gun and went out. A Lion suddenly jumped infront of him. In order to scare the Lion, the Hunter used the Umbrella like a Gun, and shot the Lion, then it died!
Guy : Nonsense! Someone else must have shot the Lion…
Doctor : Good! You understood the story. Next patient please…
Did you screenshot every time you rotated? Because I just did it 3 times on my OneUI 5 S23U, and on the third time it was the same as before, but the first and second rotate were both different.
I tested it after 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10 rotations with my base S22 on OneUI 5 and base S23 on OneUI 6.
- OneUI 5 = Icons shift a little after each rotation and at the end, moved a major amount.
- OneUI 6 = Icons on the status bar didn’t move at all.
Thank you for your test. Definitely One UI 6 have this issue and must be fixed.
Unrelated but how did you make the status bar elements small in the One UI 6 screenshot?
Developer options > Minimum width. I have set mine to 480 dp.
They probably adjusted the PPI scaling in developer options along with the overall font size if anything.
But I can’t say for sure because I can’t tell that it’s actually smaller. But if I were going to do it, that would be the way I’d try.
Just tested this on my A54 with One UI 5.1. Very interesting. I didn’t know this was a thing.
This is why I use goodlock to just hide everything. I had no idea there was burn in protection though. Wish they made it more well known. Imo there should be burn in protection for most static things and it should be a priority for coders. Fkn games that have static HUDS for example.
I play with my Goodluck app and the status bar disappear how to turn it back on.
My status bar completely disappeared few days ago. Only when you open an app it would shop up. I had to restart the phone to get it back.
Install SystemUI Tuner and create a quick toggle to show or hide the statusbar, problem solved and you get back a few millimeters of screen as a bonus
Maybe they decided moving the elements was unnecessary? Testing on my own phone it seems like there are places that are almost always lit regardless of how they move around (Clock, Mute and Battery icon don’t move enough to not overlap). And before getting rid of my previous Z Flip 3 (which I got on launch and got rid of on the launch of the Z Flip 5) I tested and there wasn’t even the slightest hint of burn in. My Pixel 3a had it really bad in no time. Maybe there’s something else going on under the hood? Reduced brightness of those elements? - by default they’re on a black background, so they don’t need to be super bright. Maybe OneUI 5 had the alternative mitigation but still moved the icons until they could prove whatever else they were doing was working but with OneUI 6 they’re happy that alternative mitigation is enough? In my opinion, unless we see phones with status bar burn we can’t say this is actually an issue.
The burn in prevention is still in place for the navigation bar. If it was deemed as unnecessary, wouldn’t they have disabled it altogether?
but but but the people here said updates don’t bring bugs!
Fyi - oneui 4.1 also does not do this (tested on s10)
You are right. I just tested it on a S10. I suppose this was a One UI 5 feature. I hope they’ll bring it back.
how much burn in protection does this give?
How often are you going to leave your screen at your homescreen for 8 hours at a time? You’ll have to deliberately disable the screensaver AND the lock screen to force a burn-in.
If you want to do something that the manufacturer did not create the phone to do, and you break it, it’s not really the manufacturer’s problem is it?
This is not a PSA, it’s creating misunderstanding and confusion.
I can’t even check this because my camera and gallery got completely corrupted with the UI update
I tested in my galaxy s22+ and I confirm no burn in protection in the status bar. Already sent report through samsung members app.
I hope that they get this fixed soon.
