One UI 9 beta presents a extra intuitive and personalised cellular expertise with enhancements throughout creativity, accessibility and safety
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. at present introduced the One UI 9 beta program, launching this week starting with the Galaxy S26 collection. Constructed on the brand new Android 17, One UI 9 beta delivers expanded artistic instruments, customization choices, a extra accessible cellular expertise and stronger safety in opposition to potential safety threats.
The total expertise of One UI 9 will probably be launched with upcoming Galaxy flagship gadgets later this 12 months, which is able to embody superior AI options that may make cellular interplay straightforward and easy.
What’s New in One UI 9 Beta
One UI 9 beta introduces a number of updates throughout key areas of the cellular expertise.
Samsung Notes[1] features artistic new instruments, together with ornamental tapes and a greater diversity of pen line types. In the meantime, the Contacts app now presents direct entry to Inventive Studio[2] for creating personalised profile playing cards with out the necessity to change between apps.
The up to date Fast Panel[3] provides customers better management over its format. Brightness, sound and media participant are every independently adjustable, with extra measurement choices to go well with particular person preferences.
Accessibility is considerably improved by an adjustable Mouse Key pace that allows smoother cursor management and a mixed TalkBack package deal that brings collectively options beforehand provided individually by Google and Samsung. The brand new Textual content Highlight characteristic — which shows chosen textual content bigger or extra clearly in a floating window — has additionally been added to make studying simpler.
One UI 9 additionally introduces enhanced safety in opposition to suspicious apps and potential threats: when new high-risk apps are detected, it now warns customers, blocks execution and set up, and recommends deletion by safety coverage updates[4].
Availability
The One UI 9 beta program will probably be obtainable to Galaxy S26 collection customers in choose markets, together with Germany, India, Korea, Poland, the U.Ok. and the U.S beginning this week. Galaxy S26 collection customers can apply to hitch the beta program through the Samsung Members app.
[1] Service availability could range by area/nation, OS/One UI model, gadget mannequin and cellphone provider.
[2] Requires Inventive Studio app set up. Inventive Studio characteristic requires a community connection and Samsung Account login. Service availability could range by nation, language or gadget mannequin. The accuracy and reliability of the generated output just isn’t assured. Sticker can solely be shared with different Galaxy gadgets.
[3] Sure settings may be grayed out or won’t seem if the characteristic is turned off.
[4] Samsung’s safety coverage updates are designed to enhance gadget safety by service operation coverage adjustments and should embody updates to record of potential high-risk apps in keeping with Samsung’s inner evaluation.