{"id":55351,"date":"2022-08-24T21:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cover-screen-os-makes-the-z-flips-front-display-better-and-worse\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T21:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:57:05","slug":"cover-screen-os-makes-the-z-flips-front-display-better-and-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cover-screen-os-makes-the-z-flips-front-display-better-and-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Screen OS makes the Z Flip’s front display better and worse"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Galaxy Z Flip 4 is a great little foldable held back by a too-tiny front display. It’s just hard doing much on a 1.9-inch screen. Even though Samsung tried making it a little more useful in this year’s iteration, it’s still just a little window from which you can view notifications and certain widgets, but not much more. Developer IJP addresses just this pain point with its Cover Screen OS, a free app on the Google Play Store. It’s been available for the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and got a recent update to support the Flip 4. And it works \u2014 but it’s also kind of awful for reasons outside of the developers’ control.<\/p>\n
To IJP’s credit, the app does a nice job of walking you through a somewhat involved setup process \u2014 you have to give it a lot <\/em>of permissions \u2014 and it integrates nicely with Samsung’s existing launcher for the cover screen. Instead of overwriting the whole thing, it coexists peacefully by essentially overlaying a new set of swipe gesture controls on the right-most part of the screen. You can access additional quick setting controls, like do not disturb, and access media playback controls straight from the home screen. Meanwhile, all of Samsung’s stock features, like widgets and Samsung Pay, are still there at your beck and call.<\/p>\n