Samsung’s One UI 8 beta arrives on Galaxy S25 phones

One UI 8 includes updates to Quick Share and the Reminder app.

Samsung has launched its beta trial of One UI 8, the company’s customized instrumentality connected Android 16. The beta is disposable present connected the Galaxy S25, Plus, and Ultra — though strangely not the caller S25 Edge — for users successful the US, UK, Germany, and South Korea.

Unsurprisingly, Samsung is emphasizing the OS update’s AI features, which purportedly see improved multimodal capabilities and much personalization. Despite that, the company’s announcement and update changelog are airy connected circumstantial details of AI upgrades beyond velocity improvements that marque AI Select contiguous to use, eliminating the erstwhile start-up delay. 

One UI 8 has besides been “optimized for the unsocial signifier factors crossed the Galaxy merchandise portfolio,” echoing Google’s accent connected Android 16 improving show and idiosyncratic acquisition connected tablets and foldables. One specified alteration is simply a caller split-screen enactment to determination 1 app partially disconnected the surface to the borderline portion you absorption connected another, which sounds akin to the multitasking tools connected the OnePlus Open.

Other changes see updates to the layout of Samsung’s Reminder app to marque it easier to signifier and stock to-do lists; a simpler interface for Quick Share; and Android 16’s enactment for Auracast, an accessibility diagnostic that allows proceeding immunodeficiency and immoderate earbuds — including the Galaxy Buds 3 — to rapidly link to shared audio streams similar nationalist announcement systems oregon performance audio feeds.

The beta is disposable present done the Samsung Members app, and Samsung says that One UI 8 volition motorboat this summertime alongside its adjacent procreation of foldable phones, apt the Z Fold 7 and Flip 7. 

The institution says the caller motorboat “initiates a caller bushed for Samsung’s bundle improvement with large UX and AI updates.” That’s surely vague, but sounds similar bully quality for fans frustrated by the protracted, months-long process for One UI 7 to scope astir devices.