In parallel to the management of the chaos linked to the release of the One UI 7 (based on Android 15) on 2024 and more dated smartphones, Samsung is carrying out the development of the One UI 8 (based on Android 16) which will most likely debut during the summer of 2025.
After head On a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6, the colleagues of Sammobile They managed to get their hands on a preliminary version of the next generation of the One UI developed for Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, giving us the idea of ​​the extent of this update on those which, also considering Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+, are the most “current” smartphones of the South Korean giant.
What will the One UI 8 be on Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
In their examination of the news, the colleagues of Sammobile they start by suggesting that the transition from one UI 7 to One UI 8 could be “the most boring ever“. The reason? Very simple, it could all be reduced (or almost) with the change of the number of the version, both as regards the owner of Samsung and as regards the Android operating system.
Still, on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 it seemed more interesting. Also in this case, the reason is very simple: on the folding, some currently “exclusive” news of the Galaxy S25 will be implemented, in addition to the news of Android 16.
The “real” novelties of the One UI 8 on Android 16 base, so those that will be added to the Galaxy S25, seem to be so few that we can count them by exploiting only the fingers of one hand: new version of Quick Share (with the “Receive” and “Send” cards), small aesthetic changes to the Gallery App, new colors for the backgrounds; In addition, the need for the Galaxy Wearable app to associate the Galaxy Buds headphones seems to have been eliminated.
The development team has a lot of work to do (but there is time)
Another aspect underlined by the colleagues of Sammobile it concerns the presence of numerous bugs in this preview version of the One UI 8 On Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
The main problems seem to afflict live notifications of the Now Bar. The absurd thing is that this functionality debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S25 and, just to add a comic note, live notifications work on Galaxy Z Flip6 (with the same preview version).
In general, therefore, this preview version seems to suggest that the One UI 8 can be a marginal update On all those devices that are “born” with the One UI 7 (on a Android 15 basis), with the main innovations concentrated under the hood.
Clearly we must consider that, from today to the actual debut of the next version, there are still a few months missing (there is talk of July/August with the very rich generation 2025 of the folding folding samsung). The development team may still have some ace on the sleeve To be played but, after the disasters of the One UI 7, we expect a fairly conservative approach.
