One UI 8 could fix annoying thing about location indicator

Samsung’s One UI for Galaxy smartphones offers one of the best UI designs in the Android market. That includes status bar icons. They are some of the most sophisticated and modern in the industry. However, if they pop up constantly, taking up space on the display, you wouldn’t like them, no matter how pretty they are. Well, that has been the case with the location indicator in the status bar of Samsung’s smartphones. 

Many people have been complaining about the location icon in the Status bar on Galaxy phones appearing too often. It pops up every time a first-party or a third-party app uses location. While that’s a great privacy feature, system apps using location constantly for something or the else means that it stays in the status bar constantly, and people don’t like it. Fortunately, it looks like Samsung may be working on fixing that with One UI 8.

Folks at Android Authority found strings of code in the internal beta builds of Samsung’s Android 16-based One UI 8.0 which suggest that the software may offer an option to prevent the location icon from appearing in the status bar when Samsung’s apps use location. When third-party apps use the location, the location indicator will still pop up. 

It means that you will see the location icon in the status bar less often, freeing space on your phone’s display for other things. At the moment, there’s no information about when Samsung will release the feature. It is not active in the current beta or stable builds. Considering that, we think Samsung may offer it with an incremental update.