Samsung’s One UI 7 Decision—Change New Setting Before You Upgrade

Samsung upgrades are here—do this now.
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Today’s finally the day. After the most frustrating of delays, Samsung has started rolling out Android 15 / One UI 7 to recent flagships. Samsung’s new Galaxy S25 was released with Android 15 out of the box. Now Galaxy S24 and S23 devices should be upgraded this month, alongside the last two generations of Z Folds and Z Flips.
Android 15 via One UI 7 brings a raft of security and privacy updates, including better protection against dangerous wired and wireless connections and better threat detection and permission abuse prevention for apps installed on your phone. Google’s stock Android 15 OS is much better than its predecessor, and Samsung makes it better still.
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But the danger of installing the wrong apps from the wrong places remains a thorn in Android’s side, and here Samsung is going further than Google to stop users from being lured into direct or third-party store installs instead of Google’s or Samsung’s stores.
Samsung has now defaulted to Maximum Restrictions for new phones, which restricts this “sideloading” of apps onto devices without some painful tapping to acknowledge the risks and bypass the protections. This is a good move and is highly recommended for all but more hardened users, those who might be lured into a dangerous download.