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Galaxy S25 series launched with One UI 7 features: Galaxy AI, Now Bar, Now Brief, Gemini, and more
Samsung Galaxy S25 series is now official with impressive specifications, design, and new On UI 7 features with Galaxy AI, Now Bar, Now Brief, Gemini, and more . The latest edition of the Galaxy S25, Gakaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra phones is a true companion to new mobile experiences with Galaxy AI. The Galaxy S series leads a new era that will forever change how mobile devices empower users.
One UI 7 features
One UI 7 comes with some major improvements that are expected to make Galaxy phones even smoother and more efficient. Samsung has improved the animations a lot with the latest One UI update.
Samsung’s One UI 7 brings a new notification system that streamlines communication with easy access from the device’s lock screen called the Now Bar. This brand new dynamic island feature highlights relevant activities across various features like Interpreter, Music, Recording, and Stopwatch, in addition to the Now Brief.
The “Now Brief” with a “Get today’s highlight” prompt gives you a personalized summary every day, including things like the weather forecast, your appointments, health info, and even suggestions for apps to use.
The update comes with a major vibrant new design, visible across the entire user interface at the center of this new look, while many system function icons have been overhauled for better visual uniformity.
Additionally, Samsung One UI 7 introduces a significantly redesigned Quick Settings and Notification Panel, provides distinct access to the notification drawer ( swipe down from anywhere else on the top of the screen.) and Quick Settings (swipe from either the top right or left), allowing you to switch between them with a left or right swipe.
Galaxy S25 will become true AI companions with One UI 7
As promised, Samsung offers AI capabilities with multimodal capabilities that enable the Galaxy S25 to interpret text, speech, images, and video so conversations sound natural.
With the One UI 7 update, Samsung has upgraded to Google’s Circle to Search, making your phone screen more helpful, faster, and relevant. The feature now quickly recognizes phone numbers, emails, and URLs on your screen, allowing you to call, email, or visit a website with a single tap.
Starting with the Galaxy S25 series running on One UI 7, you can simply press and hold the side button to activate Gemini and seamlessly interact with Samsung and Google apps as well as third-party apps like Spotify. For example, find the season schedule of your favorite web series and add it to Samsung Calendar – all this can be done by long-pressing the side button and then giving a single voice command.
With One UI 7, Samsung Galaxy AI offers advanced writing assist features such as summarizing content, check spelling and grammar, writing composers, and automatically format notes into bullet points, without requiring switching between applications.
The Galaxy S25 keeps calls organized with call transcripts and summary features when connected to the internet.
Sketch to Image: The One UI 7 Sketch to Image feature is now integrated into the Drawing Assistant, which works through Galaxy AI, which understands text, voice, and images to make the Galaxy S25 Ultra a true AI companion. With this update, it uses more than one input for a multimodal experience, such as drawing with the S Pen or one’s finger.
AI Camera lets Galaxy S25 users transform the night sky into visual masterpieces with voice commands, improving the capabilities of nightography. The latest AI camera features will work on Post Zoom, Post Nightography, and Post Quick Share.
The Galaxy S25 series comes with an Audio Eraser feature, which is equipped with generative AI capabilities to remove unwanted sounds in video clips and can be accessed through the Gallery app.
Apart from this, Samsung has also introduced the Virtual Aperture feature in the popular Expert RAW with the Galaxy S25 series. This new feature gives users even more control over their photos and gives you the flexibility to adjust the aperture according to your photos.
Security and privacy features of the Galaxy S25 series with One UI 7
In the Galaxy S25 series, post-quantum cryptography protects personal data from emerging threats that may grow with the development of quantum computing.
Another privacy feature on the Galaxy S25 series is called the Personal Data Engine, which powers personal features by securely analyzing your data on the device to deliver highly customized experiences that reflect your preferences and usage patterns.
At the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event on February 25, 2026, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S26 series. The series includes the Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26. These new smartphones come with smarter AI features that help simplify everyday tasks. Now, we are talking about four hidden Galaxy S26 Ultra camera improvements, helping improve image and video quality.
Notably, the Galaxy S26 Ultra features Samsung’s most advanced camera system to date. Samsung has integrated its 200MP primary camera and 50MP telephoto camera into the Galaxy S26 Ultra, with a wide aperture to allow more light to reach the sensor.
Additionally, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra features the powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy processor, allowing Samsung to improve camera performance, even though the phone uses the same sensor as the previous Galaxy S series Ultra.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra gets four camera improvements
1. Improved 200MP images
The Galaxy S26 Ultra feature a mutltiframe HDR processing, so that it may now capture the better 200MP images. The company says these 200MP photos deliver clearer, more detailed, and greater dynamic range than 200MP shots taken on earlier Galaxy S series models.
2. New 24MP mode in the stock camera app
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra has a new 24MP resolution option in the stock camera app. This new mode combines a 12MP multi-frame processed image with a 50MP high-resolution image using a system called AI Fusion. The resulting 24MP photo offers more detail than a 12MP image to reach the sensors, resulting in brighter, cleaner, and sharper images.
3. Virtual Aperture in Portrait Mode
The Galaxy S25 Ultra launched with a virtual aperture feature, but it was limited to the Expert RAW app. Now, Samsung adds a virtual aperture feature to the Portrait mode of the stock camera app on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, allowing users to digitally adjust the aperture.
4. Auto option for Motion Photo
As the name suggests, a motion photo is a short video clip captured alongside a still image. It includes a few seconds before and after the shutter button is pressed.. Now, on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, when the Auto option is on, Motion Photos are only recorded when significant movement is detected in the scene. If you capture a static scene, such as a…. landscape, with no visible motion, the Motion Photo will not be saved.
Samsung has released the February 2026 security update for four more Galaxy devices – the Galaxy Z Flip 7, Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6. This update keeps your phone secure and running smoothly instead of adding new features or changing its look.
As always, this update improves the phone’s security and makes the system run more smoothly. This update fixes issues with the previous software version and helps make the device more stable. Samsung says this update is important because it protects users from security risks and keeps personal data safe.
Galaxy Z Flip 7 February 2026 update
Users of these devices can verify the latest update via the One UI build versions given below.
- Galaxy Z Flip 7: F766NKSS8AZB2
- Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE: F761NKSS8AZB2
- Galaxy Z Fold 6: F956NKSS3CZB2
- Galaxy Z Flip 6: F741NKSS3CZB2
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Samsung usually rolls out updates gradually, so users in other markets should also receive the same update in a week or two.
To manually download the update, go to Settings >> Software Update >> Download and Install. Once the download is complete, tap Restart/Install Now to complete the installation. Make sure your phone is connected to a stable Wi-Fi network and has enough battery.
In addition to the security update, Samsung is also working on One UI 8.5. The beta version is currently available for the Galaxy S25 series in some regions, and Samsung has confirmed that the stable version will launch with the Galaxy S26 series tomorrow. Stay tuned for more details.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 series has started receiving the One UI 8.5 beta 5 update. The latest beta software contains several bug fixes and provides stability. This is likely the last beta before a stable release.
One UI 8.5 Beta 5 ZZAN is rolling out to Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra in key markets. So far, it has been rolled out in Germany, India, South Korea, the US, and the UK.
Additionally, the February 2026 security patch has been tagged with the latest Beta update. It provides fixes for 25 that come from Google for Android, and 12 are provided by Samsung Mobile for additional protection of the One UI operating system.
The One UI 8.5 Beta 5 software includes an updated Bixby version that improves the usability experience. Moreover, this beta version updated your Samsung apps to the latest available versions.
One UI 8.5 Beta 5 update changelog:
- Version – One UI 8.5, ZZAN
Major changes/improvement
- Bixby version update applied
Samsung also revealed that the One UI 8.5 official rollout for the Galaxy S26 series will begin next week. That said, users of these flagships can expect the Stable update next month, and no new Beta will be provided in between.
If you’re already part of the One UI 8.5 beta program, you can get beta 5 on your Galaxy by going to Settings > Software updates > Download and install.
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