{"id":15752,"date":"2026-05-13T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:39:07","slug":"samsung-one-ui-9-beta-arrives-but-the-best-is-probably-still-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15752\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung One UI 9 beta arrives, but the best is probably still to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung has announced it has launched the One UI 9 beta, initially for Galaxy S26 smartphone<\/a> owners, with the company promising a focus on creativity, personalisation, accessibility and security.<\/p>\n

The new user interface, which sits on top of Android, will roll to all owners of recent Galaxy devices as the year progresses. Right now, only Galaxy S26<\/a> series owners who have access to the beta program can take One UI 9 for a spin.<\/p>\n

The key updates include updates to Samsung Notes, which brings in more pen styles and decorative tapes. The new Contacts app has a meaningless feature that enables personalised profile cards to be made with AI. I mean, just use a photo, right?<\/p>\n

Samsung is updating the Quick Panel, offering users more layout customisation options including the ability to independently adjust brightness, sound and media player controls. From a security standpoint, Samsung is now proactively warning users when threads are abound from malicious or insecure apps.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne UI 9 also introduces enhanced protection against suspicious apps and potential threats: when new high-risk apps are detected, it now warns users, blocks execution and installation, and recommends deletion through security policy updates,\u201d Samsung says in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, accessibility is getting a boost. The Mouse Key speed will now be adjustable, while the TalkBack feature combines the best of Google and Samsung features. For those with vision issues, a Text Spotlight feature has been added to \u201cdisplay selected text larger or more clearly in a floating window.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this sounds a little underwhelming as a feature set, fear not, Samsung is likely to add updates as the beta progresses. One of those is probably new Gemini Intelligence features that Google announced earlier this week<\/a> as part of Android Show announcements. Those include agentic features, like automatically filling out forms. Google and Samsung have already said their phones get first dibs.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\"google\t\t<\/a>
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\"Apple\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung has announced it has launched the One UI 9 beta, initially for Galaxy S26 smartphone owners, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[127,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-15752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samsung","8":"tag-samsung","9":"tag-samsung-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}