{"id":245636,"date":"2026-05-14T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-ui-9-beta-brings-samsungs-most-aggressive-focus-tool-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:50:13","slug":"one-ui-9-beta-brings-samsungs-most-aggressive-focus-tool-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/one-ui-9-beta-brings-samsungs-most-aggressive-focus-tool-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"One UI 9 beta brings Samsung&#8217;s most aggressive focus tool yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-one-ui-9-concentration-feature-3666807\/\">One UI 9 beta brings Samsung&#8217;s most aggressive focus tool yet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-one-ui-9-concentration-feature-3666807\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-one-ui-9-concentration-feature-3666807\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 00:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Jones \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung appears to be working on a new One UI 9 feature that will let users block internet access for distracting apps.<\/li>\n<li>It also includes PIN protection and scheduled Downtime controls, suggesting Samsung could be building a parental-control and productivity hybrid tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update: May 14, 2026 (12:39 AM ET): <\/strong>We\u2019ve updated our article below with screenshots of the new feature, which now seems to be available through Connectivity Labs in the official One UI 9 beta.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Dylan H., for the screenshots and for confirming the feature\u2019s availability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article: May 13, 2026 (11:38 PM ET): <\/strong>Samsung could be preparing a new productivity-focused feature for One UI 9, and it looks like the company may want to help users fight distractions at the network level instead of relying only on app timers.<\/p>\n<p>We discovered code for this experimental focus feature in One UI 9 as part of Samsung\u2019s Connectivity Labs, a hidden Wi-Fi menu on Samsung\u2019s phones that appears after repeatedly tapping the \u201cIntelligent Wi-Fi\u201d button in Settings.<\/p>\n<p>The code strings reveal that the feature is designed to block internet access to distracting app categories such as social media, games, streaming apps, and others. The most telling set of strings we found about the feature is titled \u201cNetwork management for concentration,\u201d describing the tool in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>Code<\/p>\n<p>Copy TextNetwork management for concentration<br aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>Reduce distractions from videos, social media, and games to improve concentration on work and study.<\/p>\n<p>That wording strongly suggests Samsung is developing a system that can selectively restrict internet access for distracting apps or categories of apps. Unlike traditional Digital Wellbeing tools that simply limit screen time, this appears to work directly through network controls.<\/p>\n<p>The code also references several predefined restriction buckets shown in the screenshots above. There include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Browser<\/li>\n<li>Game<\/li>\n<li>Social<\/li>\n<li>Streaming<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<li>Preset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-one-ui-9-concentration-feature-3666807\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One UI 9 beta brings Samsung&#8217;s most aggressive focus tool yet https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-one-ui-9-concentration-feature-3666807\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/OneUI-9-update-screen-on-S26-Ultra-straight-on.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-245636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245638,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245636\/revisions\/245638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}