One UI 7 has been disastrous for me, and not just because of preferences or layout. So far, I consistently get one or more of three issues: 1. Home button (the round square at the bottom) ceasing to function. Seems to happen when I open any app, only actually triggers the moment I tap on the three lines next to it to bring up the open applications screen. 2. Swiping up from home screen doesn't bring up the app list. Seems to occur whenever I press the home button from the application card screen (pressing the 3 lines button). Only consistent workaround is to go to settings and press home key (which behaves as expected). 3. Lock screen showing what is basically a screenshot of my home screen as a wallpaper, despite having an actual wallpaper. Seems to occur whenever I tap the power button with an app open, but it's inconsistent. I don't have a workaround for this, it just stops doing that randomly it seems. these occur very frequently; I'm fighting the UI every time i want to do something. besides that, I've had other issues too; mostly minor issues (visual glitches), but one big one. Earlier today, my phone only displayed the wall paper on my home screen and nothing else; no UI elements at all. Holding down the power button brought up the power options menu (manually adjusted that setting before this occurred), but tapping any of the power options did absolutely nothing. I wasn't even able to reboot or turn off my phone, only thing that shook it out of this siezed up state was tapping the side button settings bar at the bottom of the power options screen. This has been the buggiest mess of a UI I've ever had the displeasure of using, and that's putting aside a few of my grievances with the aesthetic changes they made to it. For reference, I'm on a (admittedly beat up) galaxy s21FE, and I do have F-droid installed but the phone is not rooted.

Lizard insurance app mandates you give location permission, refusing access to the rest of the app otherwise. I have 0 intention of giving them this but so far have failed to find a phone number to call them (their mobile website tells me to use the app). Until I find a different company run by living, real people, my current intention is to use the app to manage my insurance in the meantime. I don't want to give them my location, even if it's only while using the app, so how do I get the app to think it has my location when it actually doesn't? inb4 just use a computer: nah. It's about spite at this point.

One UI 6.0 and Android version 14. Whenever I go to upload a photo this weird sub menu pops up instead of taking me directly to my gallery or my files. What is this, and how do I disable it? Edit: Thanks for all the replies everyone! Appears to be a native android photo picker and it cannot be disabled as far as I've seen and been made aware from this thread.