Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ are the company’s latest flagships and these phones come with some impressive features that aren’t present on the 2017 flagships. However, today the company is pushing one such feature to S8 and Note8 flagships. Samsung has released an update to the Always On Display (AOD) on the Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 that adds support for using GIF.
The update lets you add a little action to the otherwise-dull clock and time Always On Display. Samsung allowed you to add themes and photos, but GIF is the latest update. You can either chose from a list of Samsung defaults or upload one from Gallery. Since we are talking about GIF, it shouldn’t be long and you can trim it from the gallery. The GIF won’t play for long, it just plays once when you turn the display off. If you wish to see the GIF again, just double-tap-on the screen.
This limitation is put forth to reduce battery consumption. To get the new Gif animation feature, you will have to update the Always on Display from ‘My Apps’ and once you’ve updated, you will need to select the particular clock style that shows images on the display. You can set up the GIF on Always On Display from Settings then head to Lock screen and security and Always On Display menu and select either the Clock or Home button and then select the clock style.
However, users of the S8, S8+, and Note8 should be running on the Android 8.0 Oreo for this GIF feature to become functional. Hope this feature will come to other Samsung smartphones with support for always-on-display.