As you may have noticed, today is an important day in the Samsung house: the manufacturer released the One UI 8 Watch Beta For Samsung Galaxy Watch7 And Galaxy Watch Ultraand on the other the One UI 8 Beta 3 for the series Samsung Galaxy S25. Let’s take a closer look at the news introduced in these hours.

The One Ui 8 Beta 3 of the Galaxy S25 introduces a welcome news to now brief

Let’s start with smartphones: Samsung Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra welcome the One UI 8 Beta 3which brings us closer to another beautiful step to the debut of the stable version. The novelties (few) described within the Changelog that we saw the past few hours left a small novelty linked to artificial intelligence features, which we can now discover together.

Now brief It has become smarter: now it can inform users of the incoming events (such as birthdays, for example), and not only; There is a new option that allows you to provide an input for generate greeting tickets And choose between different artistic styles, all in a few moments. Thanks to the screenshots shared by Sammobile We can show you how the news works.

Previous advances also speak of the arrival of other features, as a reminder for parking, notices for the Smart Home and for the wearable devices connected and beyond. After a not particularly complete debut, Now Brief is preparing to land on other manufacturer devices with the update to the One UI 8, as apparently it will do so in a more interesting way.

The beta program of the One UI 8 seems already well at a good point of stability: the debut of the Samsung version of Android 16 will take place on July 9 during the Galaxy Unpacked, aboard Galaxy Z Flip7 and Galaxy Z Fold7. It will arrive by updating from the Galaxy S25, perhaps already within the next month.

Let’s find out the one UI 8 Watch Beta together

Let’s move on to One UI 8 Watch Betaarrived at his first release just this morning. The debut took place on Samsung Galaxy Watch7 And Galaxy Watch Ultrabut in the next few days the tests will widen by also involving Galaxy Watch5, Galaxy Watch5 Pro, Galaxy Watch6 and Galaxy Watch6 Classic.

Index:

  • The new app screen, complete with a list
  • Now bar on smartwatches with One Ui 8 Watch Beta
  • The complete Changelog with all the news of the One UI 8 Watch Beta
  • The new charging animation and renewed tiles in action

The new app screen, complete with a list

Among the main innovations brought in these hours we find more customization possibilities within the system. Inside the screen of the various appsthese can now be viewed according to the frequency of use and other models of use, and can be displayed as a list with names instead of only with the icons. We can see the differences compared to the previous version (first screenshot) in the following images, shared on Telegram (via Android Authority).

These changes are designed to simplify access to the various applications: based on what we can see, users should appreciate changes.

Now bar on smartwatches with One Ui 8 Watch Beta

The One UI 8 Watch Beta brought the Now bar on smartwatch: As you probably know, it is used to make available relevant information on the lock screen (and not only). On smartphones with at least one UI 7 can show details on the device charging status, the stopwatch, sporting results, directions, details on multimedia reproduction and beyond.

Thanks to the screenshots and video published on Telegram (here and here) we can see the now bar in action on Galaxy Watch: in the images we can see support for music reproduction, the timer and the time trial. The system allows you to choose whether to view only the app icon or even the text.

The complete Changelog with all the news of the One UI 8 Watch Beta

For completeness, we report the complete changelog of updating. Unfortunately, also this time nothing Italy, but if you follow us from one of the countries involved (such as the United States and South Korea) you can join the tests through the Samsung Members app.

The new charging animation and renewed tiles in action

We close by taking a look at Three short videos shared by TARUN VATS and by a user on Telegram, who allow us to appreciate the New animation for charging of the smartwatch, now in line with the one introduced on smartphones with the One UI 7, and Tile renewed. As anticipated, the One UI 8 Watch Beta also introduced the support for two tiles on a single page: in this way it is possible to add two thinner “pills” to a single screen.

All these news will make their debut in a stable version on Samsung Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Watch8 Classic and Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025): the presentation is set for the Galaxy UNPACKED of 9 July 2025.