The Galaxy Z Flip 8 removes one of the biggest hassles with its cover screen

TL;DR Samsung is making it much easier to run apps directly on the Galaxy Z Flip 8’s outer screen. In addition to allowing 16 apps straight out of the box, Samsung is improving the flow for installing and running required tools to run virtually any app. With this change, the app launcher experience on the Galaxy Z Flip 8’s cover screen is also getting upgraded.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is moving into its eighth generation, and some even speculate it might be its last . Despite that, Samsung isn’t just offering a lip-service upgrade over last year’s Flip 7; it’s stocking the new Galaxy Z Flip 8 with a more reliable Snapdragon chip (for some markets) and making the Flip even slimmer than before. Aside from that, the outer display may look the same, but it’s getting a major utility upgrade, with expanded app support and a more seamless app-launching experience without ever having to open the screen.

The Galaxy Z Flip series typically receives biennial design updates, and since Samsung updated the cover screen only last year, we aren’t seeing any other major changes. Apart from some bulk shedding, the Flip 8 is largely the same as the Flip 7 from the outside, though Samsung claims a big improvement for the previously messy cover screen .