One UI 9 beta presents a extra intuitive and personalised cell expertise with enhancements throughout creativity, accessibility and safety
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in the present day introduced the One UI 9 beta program, launching this week starting with the Galaxy S26 sequence. Constructed on the brand new Android 17, One UI 9 beta delivers expanded artistic instruments, customisation choices, a extra accessible cell expertise and stronger safety in opposition to potential safety threats.
The complete expertise of One UI 9 shall be launched with upcoming Galaxy flagship units later this 12 months, which can embrace superior AI options that can make cell interplay simple and easy.
What’s New in One UI 9 Beta
One UI 9 beta introduces a number of updates throughout key areas of the cell expertise.
Samsung Notes[1] positive aspects artistic new instruments, together with ornamental tapes and a greater diversity of pen line kinds. 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 swap between apps.
The up to date Fast Panel[3] offers customers better management over its structure. 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 velocity that allows smoother cursor management and a mixed TalkBack bundle that brings collectively options beforehand supplied 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 via safety coverage updates[4].
Availability
The One UI 9 beta program shall be accessible to Galaxy S26 sequence customers in choose markets, together with the U.Ok. beginning this week. Galaxy S26 sequence customers can apply to hitch the beta program by way of the Samsung Members app.
[1] Service availability could fluctuate 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 fluctuate 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 units.
[3] Sure settings may be greyed out or is not going to seem if the characteristic is turned off.
[4] Samsung’s safety coverage updates are designed to enhance gadget safety via service operation coverage modifications and should embrace updates to checklist of potential high-risk apps in keeping with Samsung’s inner evaluation.