I did the update for changing version 8 to 9 (Pie) this afternoon, and I've already noticed 5 or 6 problems. This gmail constantly syncing is the latest one. The syncing itself doesn't really bother me, but when it's doing it, it shows the same icon, on the top of the screen, that I get when I receive an email, so I think I've received an email and when I check, it says that it's just syncing. Super annoying.
I talked to Samsung today and they said that the majority of the update was to make it easier for one-hand accessibility. I'm not kidding. That's what the rep told me. The majority of this update was because enough people told samsung that they wanted better one-hand accessibility.
This Gmail syncing problem, the moving of the clock from the right side to the left side, and other issues. Since doing this update, when I go to my text messages, the entire top half of the screen says "no unread messages". It's a total waste of space and now I can only see 4 threads instead of 8 so everytime I go to my text messages, first order of business is to scroll up to see my threads (which doesn't even make sense for one-hand accessibility because when I hold the phone, my thumb is next to the empty top half of the screen to instead of being next to the threads smh)
And according to the rep, there is no way to back out of the update, or correct the clock thing or the text message thing. And I've had this update for less than 12 hours. I can't imagine how many problems I'll notice in the next couple of weeks.
It seems that my only hope is to get used to all of them before I run out of xanax.