Quick Panel no longer shows labels

[J-69]

I have the Galaxy A35 phone.

Usually, when I swipe down on the right-side of the screen, the Quick Panel opens & I see all the buttons along with their labels underneath.

But starting yesterday, when I swipe down on the right-side of the screen, the Quick Panel opens as usual, but there are NO labels underneath the buttons anymore.

There are lots of buttons & not all of the symbols are easily identifiable.
I'd love to know whose bright idea it was to remove the button labels.

[Pete-ohki]

So, when you swiped down on the section that contains all the buttons besides the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (or pull down on the bar at the bottom of that section), the labels do not show up after the section expanded?

[J-69]

Not anymore.

[Pete-ohki]

That sounds like a bug to me; at least the labels still shows on mines when expanded, and I have One UI 8. If it was me, I would have sent a feedback in the Support page of the Members app.

I'm sure there are others who can better help, but here are a few ideas you could try. You could try rebooting your phone and see if that clears it. You could also try clearing the system's cache. Steps to clear your system cache can be found here: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S23/Clear-System-Cache/m-p/2631453#M66543

[realaud]

When you expand the section with all the quick icons, the labels will be exposed, only the top two rows do not have labels when the panel is collapsed - the labels return to those icons when the panel is expanded.

[Mujibar]

You don't have any labels at all? Can you post a screenshot? As you can see in mine, the quick panel buttons don't have labels in the first pic. I have to swipe down again to have them display, as in the second pic.

[gamerphoneguy]

Same, labels show when I expand

[realaud]

The labels will not show until the quick panel is expanded, so I would recommend rearranging the icons with the easily recognizable ones on top, or in an order where the ones you use most are on top.

[J-69]

I restarted my phone & checked.

Now I have to swipe down on the right-side of the screen to see the Quick Panel buttons (but without labels) & then swipe down a 2nd time just to see the labels!

This is ridiculous!
It's NOT saving very many pixels, makes it slower for some people who can't remember certain symbols right away & I bet it added to the code that needed to be written.

Was this another dumbfounded idea from Samsung or Alphabet/Google?
Anyway, thank you everyone for the replies.

P.S.: Pete-ohki, what happens if I clear the system's cache, as your link shows?
          Do my system settings change at all?

[Mujibar]

Clearing the cache partition only removes temporary system files. Your data will remain intact.

Did you just get One UI 7? Because that's when the quick panel change happened.