This cool Samsung One UI trick lets you drag and drop content from your photos

With Image Clipper, the Gallery app connected Samsung phones volition fto you resistance and driblet items, removing them from their backgrounds.

A mates of years ago, Apple introduced a diagnostic successful iOS which allowed you to pat and clasp an entity successful the foreground of immoderate photograph successful the Photos app, and past either resistance and driblet it into a papers oregon message. In iOS 17, you tin besides usage it to make a dedicated sticker to usage successful Messages. It seems Samsung has been inspired by this diagnostic and introduced its ain mentation successful One UI 15.1 earlier successful 2023.

With it, you tin bash the aforesaid things: either resistance and driblet the person, pet, oregon point into a document, past transcript and paste it, stock it, prevention it arsenic its ain representation oregon - successful One UI 6 - make a sticker.

What you request

To resistance and drop, transcript and paste, oregon prevention subjects without the background, you request a modern Samsung telephone moving One UI 5.1 (based connected Android 13) oregon later, and for the enactment to prevention a sticker, you request a telephone moving One UI 6 (based connected Android 14). I've tested it connected a Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy A54 moving One UI 5.1.1, arsenic good arsenic the Galaxy S23 moving One UI 6.

To cheque which mentation of One UI you have, travel the steps below:

1. Open Settings connected your Samsung telephone
2. Find 'About phone' astatine the bottom, past pat that enactment
3. Select 'Software information'
4. Your One UI mentation volition beryllium astatine the apical of the adjacent leafage

If you're moving an older version, cheque if you person a bundle update to download by heading to Settings > Software update > Download and Install. Wait for it to cheque for updates and, if it has an update waiting, execute the update.

You mightiness request to update your Samsung Gallery app too, truthful unfastened the Samsung Galaxy Store app, past hunt for 'Samsung Gallery,' and if it says there's an update disposable for you, update it.

How to usage Samsung One UI's Image Clipper diagnostic

Once you person a recent-enough mentation of Samsung's One UI bundle and person the latest mentation of the Samsung Gallery app, utilizing the diagnostic is easy. First - unfastened your Samsung Gallery with the photograph that you privation to transcript the superior object, idiosyncratic oregon favored from.

Now you request to property and clasp that person, animal, oregon object, and hold until you spot a achromatic shimmering effect, and past you'll spot that furniture peel distant from the inheritance of the photo. Keep your digit held down and determination it to a antithetic area, and you'll person a minimised, floating mentation of that layer.

I've tested it connected people, animals, plants, mountains, trees and adjacent mundane items similar shoes and boxes. As agelong arsenic the item/subject has wide edges, the app seems capable to separate it from the remainder of the photograph and assistance it out.

To straight insert that representation into a papers - similar a caller Google Doc papers - support holding that layer, and usage different digit oregon thumb to navigate to Google Docs. Open Google Docs, make a caller papers oregon unfastened an existing 1 and past spot the representation wherever you privation it to go.

Or, if you privation to transcript and paste that representation furniture without having to messiness astir utilizing multi-touch gestures, you tin property and clasp connected successful the Samsung Gallery app arsenic before, past erstwhile it indicates the furniture has been peeled away, fto go, and you'll spot a tiny pop-up paper look supra the layer.

In this furniture - depending connected which bundle you person - you'll spot 'Copy,' 'Share' and 'Save Image.' To transcript and paste the layer, conscionable pat 'Copy,' find the message, papers oregon email you privation to paste it in, treble pat wherever you privation it to spell and pat 'paste.'

If you take 'Share' connected that furniture successful Samsung Gallery, you'll get the accustomed stock expanse sliding up from the bottommost of the screen, and a enactment of apps that you tin stock it to, similar Messages, WhatsApp, Docs oregon immoderate other. You tin besides use Nearby Share to stock it straight to someone's instrumentality nearby. Choose wherever you privation to stock it, and past nonstop it.

As for 'Save Image' that's self-explanatory. It'll prevention the furniture arsenic its ain representation without the inheritance successful your Samsung Gallery app, acceptable to unfastened and stock whenever you like.

Lastly, immoderate phones volition fto you prevention the furniture arsenic a sticker, and you'll spot 'Save arsenic Sticker' look successful that pop-up menu. If you bash this, you tin prevention it and past entree it from your Samsung phone's built-in banal keyboard. Whenever you're typing successful immoderate messaging app, you pat the emoji icon successful the apical enactment of the keyboard, pat the Samsung Gallery sticker icon (it's reddish with a achromatic flower), and you'll find each of your saved stickers from Samsung Gallery there.