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

In keeping with a brand new report from Sammy Fans, Samsung is internally testing its all-new One UI 8 software program replace throughout numerous its current 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 sequence
• Galaxy S22 sequence
• 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 sequence
• Galaxy Tab S9 sequence
• 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 by way of the Geekbench benchmarking service. In the intervening time, that is all nonetheless speculative, as Samsung has but to substantiate any official One UI 8 replace roadmap.

After all, it is unimaginable to substantiate whether or not this record of appropriate Samsung units is wholly correct, but it surely positive does take a look at: the Galaxy S20 sequence missed out on One UI 7, setting the precedent for the Galaxy S21 sequence to take a seat out on the One UI 8 replace. These older units have 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 ready to launch Android 16 into the Galaxy

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

At the moment, One UI 8 is offered 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 further beta builds will roll out to additional units “within the following month.”

When One UI 8 does lastly land on current units, it will carry with it many or the entire platform enhancements launched in Google’s Android 16 launch, which reached stability again in June. Trendy 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 newest working system launch.

Typically, this means of making use of software program skins like One UI takes just a few brief months post-launch of a brand new model of Android, whereas different instances the delay is considerably longer. Infamously, final yr’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 numerous consumer interface components throughout the board, One UI 8 is extra of an iterative software program launch. As such, I might 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.