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One UI 8 will let any app show a Live Notification in Samsung’s Now Bar
Score Code- July 3, 2025
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- Samsung’s One UI 8 will enhance its Live Notifications feature by adopting Android 16’s new “Live Updates” API for broader third-party app support.
- This new API allows any app to create live, ongoing notifications, a major improvement from the previous version limited to mostly first-party Samsung apps.
- The feature is currently available in the One UI 8 beta behind a developer flag but is expected to be enabled for everyone in the final stable release.
When Samsung released One UI 7 earlier this year, it introduced Live Notifications, its take on Apple’s Live Activities. These notifications make ongoing activities more visible on the lock screen and notification panel, but they launched with one major downside: only a handful of apps, mostly from Samsung itself, could create them. That’s changing in the upcoming One UI 8 update.
Since One UI 8 is based on Android 16, it can leverage a new underlying feature called “Live Updates,” which offers similar functionality to Live Notifications but can be used by any third-party app. Thanks to the latest beta, we’re already getting a sneak peek at what that will look like in action.
