This new report suggests Samsung is full-steam forward with One UI 8 testing

In response to a brand new report from Sammy Fans, Samsung is internally testing its all-new One UI 8 software program replace throughout various its present handsets and tablets. Utilizing the free CheckFirm app from the Google Play Retailer, which particulars official Samsung firmware throughout appropriate Galaxy fashions — Sammy Followers discovered that the next units are actively being examined with in-progress builds of the OS replace:

• Galaxy S23 collection
• Galaxy S22 collection
• Galaxy S21 FE
• Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5
• Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4
• Galaxy A56, A55, A54, A36, A35, A26, A73, A33
• Galaxy Tab S10 collection
• Galaxy Tab S9 collection
• Galaxy Tab Lively 5 Professional
• Galaxy M34

A few of these {hardware} merchandise have been flagged as having inner and beta builds, whereas others have surfaced through the Geekbench benchmarking service. In the interim, that is all nonetheless speculative, as Samsung has but to substantiate any official One UI 8 replace roadmap.

After all, it is not possible to substantiate whether or not this listing of appropriate Samsung units is wholly correct, however it certain does try: the Galaxy S20 collection missed out on One UI 7, setting the precedent for the Galaxy S21 collection to take a seat out on the One UI 8 replace. These older units had been solely promised 4 years of platform updates, versus the seven years on newer Galaxy fashions starting with the S24 series.

One UI 8 is about to launch Android 16 into the Galaxy

Let’s hope One UI 8’s launch cadence is an enchancment over final 12 months’s launch

At the moment, One UI 8 is out there out of the field in steady kind on Samsung’s all-new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 foldable telephones, with public beta program builds available for each the S24 and the S25 lineups. The corporate has confirmed that extra beta builds will roll out to additional units “within the following month.”

When One UI 8 does lastly land on present units, it’s going to convey with it many or the entire platform enhancements launched in Google’s Android 16 launch, which reached stability again in June. Fashionable Pixel telephones have been having fun with Android 16 for a while now, however Samsung and different Android {hardware} makers have the perennial job of needing to adapt their proprietary software program skins to the most recent working system launch.

Generally, this strategy of making use of software program skins like One UI takes only some brief months post-launch of a brand new model of Android, whereas different instances the delay is considerably longer. Infamously, final 12 months’s Android 15-based One UI 7 was marred by rollout delays, resulting in frustration from Samsung followers the world (er, Galaxy) over.

In comparison with One UI 7, which overhauled various consumer interface components throughout the board, One UI 8 is extra of an iterative software program launch. As such, I would count on to see it land throughout the complete Galaxy ecosystem with out an excessive amount of delay, assuming no show-stopping bugs present as much as thwart Samsung’s inner plans.