Samsung takes away more user freedom with the latest update of 'My Files'
Samsung is increasingly moving towards a one-size-fits-all constrained OS with less user freedom, and I don't like it one bit.
Since yesterday's update (2026-05-20) for Android 16, One UI 8.0, you can no longer smoothly open .txt files with your default text editor. Samsung has apparently decided that 'My Files' now overrides any user settings and opens the file with 'My Files' itself.
If you want to use your preferred editor, you now need to long press the file and choose it among several apps. There is no more 'always' option to set the default in the 'open with' menu, and the default apps menu in settings does not show an option for txt files.
For now my fix is to reset the 'My Files' app to factory defaults and reject future updates. In the long term I might look to a different OEM for my next smartphone.