One UI 8: Samsung in starting blocks for an early outing

The race for software updates does not go smoothly for Samsung, for whom the deployment of one UI 7 (based on Android 15) is a long path strewn with pitfalls. After The South Korean had to interrupt the upgraded campaign in April Due to a critical bug, Here it is just back… while the interface that will succeed her is already talking about her. It will of course be one UI 8, this interface this time based on Android 16.

THE Developer Previews Android 16 have followed one another since the end of 2024, and these are now beta versions that Google deploys – only on its Pixel smartphones for the moment. The release of the final version of the operating system being expected before the summer, Mountain View partners logically work on their adaptation to their own smartphones. On the Samsung side, the first beta version of one UI 8 with Android 16 would be out in the third week of May, according to the information of Sammobile. Our colleagues believe that the beta in question will initially be deployed in a few countries, before being more widely made available during the month of June. Suffice to say that by betting everything on the new version of his overlay six months after the previous one, Samsung would choose to leave as quickly as possible behind the parenthesis One UI 7.

What could one UI 8 look like? The first information leaks allow you to expect a Redesign of the Samsung Internet applicationthat is to say the manufacturer’s house web browser, which would gain in personalization options. This new version would sign the widening of the NOW Brief function on more smartphones than Galaxy S, as well as improving the readability of certain native applications.