Samsung started rolling out Android 14-based One UI 6.0 to the company’s tablets towards the end of 2023. While the new version of the operating system and customization brought many new features, they also introduced a very annoying issue.
According to multiple people on Samsung’s community forum for the United States, once they updated their Galaxy Tab to One UI 6.0, they noticed that the icons and widgets on the home screen shrunk in size, leaving a significant amount of space vertically on both sides of the display. At first, it seemed like the OS had defaulted to a different grid size and that changing the grid option would fix the issue. Unfortunately, doing so didn’t help. A user with the account name MLAUER2487 posted images demonstrating the issue. You check out those pictures below.
Upon exploring further, people realized that the space was unusable and they couldn’t place icons and widgets in the area, which was even worse. Since the icons and widgets shrink in size, the home screen looks cluttered, and since the space on either side of the display is unusable, that much screen real estate is wasted. People tried updating One UI Home to the latest version but that didn’t help either. They also used Good Lock’s Home Up module, which allows you to tinker with many aspects of the home screen. Sadly, that method also did not work.
From what we could gather, this is a widespread issue. Almost everyone who updated their Galaxy Tab to One UI 6.0 is facing this problem, irrespective of the device. Samsung is yet to acknowledge the issue, which is quite surprising (and disappointing) as this is a very serious problem and it has been more than three months since the annoying issue popped up. We hope that Samsung quickly acknowledges the problem and immediately rolls out a software update to fix the issue.