Cover Screen OS makes the Galaxy Z Flip’s front display better and worse
by Allison Johnson from The Verge - All Posts on (#62W2C)
This screen is just not meant for full-sized apps. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge The Galaxy Z Flip 4 is a great little foldable held back by a too-tiny front display. It's just hard doing much on a 1.9-inch screen. Even though Samsung tried making it a little more useful in this year's iteration, it's still just a little window from which you can view notifications and certain widgets, but not much more. Developer IJP addresses just this pain point with its Cover Screen OS, a free app on the Google Play Store. It's been available for the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and got a recent update to support the Flip 4. And it works - but it's also kind of awful for reasons outside of the developers' control.
To IJP's credit, the app does a nice job of walking you through a somewhat involved setup process - you have to give it a lot of...