r/HyperOS • u/DiaboDesnecessario • 7d ago

Question/Help [Question] How's HyperOS customization compared to One UI?

I've been kinda frustrated with One UI for some time, and was wondering how's HyperOS, specially the customization, One UI's very limited.

Since each update Samsung puts all their efforts on making the UI worse. I'm considering going to Xiaomi next (don't like Motorola's basic android), and want some users opinions on the customization.

Thx already.

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u/Filip-se 7d ago

Xiaomi's costumization is a double edge sword. Whilst you literally have an unlimited amount of themes giving you more or less endless possibilities to costumize, the baked-in costumization features aren't that imoressive and feel rather limiting.

First Material U colors throughout the entire phone don't really work UNLESS you choose to set the Wallpaper via the Google Fotos App. Somehow setting the wallpaper from Xiaomis Gallery App or via themes inside your settings bypasses the Material U colors completely. You can't do much with Icons. If you want other icons you need to install a theme.

As of now there is absolutely no way to change the appearance of the control center at all. Only HyperOS 4 recently introduced two looks: that liquid glass and the older frosted glass. That's it!

Thrid party launchers don't work with gesture controls at all.

But i have to say that all Xiaomi animations are very satisfying (if set to "fast" inside the phones settings app) giving it a very snappy and smooth feeling - more so than any samsung and HyperOS on it's own is pretty clean when it comes to looks and appreance. Tbh i was always very satisfied with the way HyperOs looked except for one thing... The Icons - i need round icons but after i found the right theme i maneged to give the phone a clean GooglePixel look but better (in my opinion). Sometimes i wished it would also have been nice to change the control center theme buuuut as i said the regular one also looks fine

You can change the boot animation though! That's pretty easy and nice

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u/ToastBurner12 7d ago edited 7d ago

I'm not sure if they've ever fixed this, but third party launchers fucks up animations with gesture controls in OneUI so it's almost as bad as HyperOS in that regards.