{"id":120955,"date":"2025-08-05T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120955\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:19:10","slug":"samsung-expands-one-ui-8-beta-to-these-galaxy-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120955\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung expands One UI 8 beta to these Galaxy devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Samsung-Galaxy-S24-Ultra-2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While we expected Samsung\u2019s One UI 8 update, based on Android 16, to start rolling out to older Galaxy devices sometime this month, the company has just confirmed that won\u2019t happen until September, but the beta is expanding today.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/28\/samsung-one-ui-8-galaxy-s25-beta-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first One UI 8 beta on the Galaxy S25 series in May of this year<\/a>, then fully launching the update on its new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 in late July. But, thus far, the company has been quiet regarding a stable rollout of its Android 16 update.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we\u2019re finally getting details.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-one-ui-8-beta-will-be-open-for-more-galaxy-devices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post <\/a>today, Samsung has confirmed that the stable One UI 8 update will start rolling out to supported Galaxy devices \u201cstarting in September.\u201d It\u2019s unclear when in September, but it\u2019s likely not right at the beginning considering the main piece of news in that announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>For now, Samsung is expanding the One UI 8 beta program to more Galaxy devices beyond the Galaxy S25 series. The following Galaxy devices were explicitly included:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Galaxy S24<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy S24+<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy S24 Ultra<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy Z Flip 6<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy Z Fold 6<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy S23<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy S23+ <\/li>\n<li>Galaxy S23 Ultra<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy Z Flip 5<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy Z Fold 5<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy A36<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy A55<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy A35<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy A54<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only the Galaxy S24 series and 2024\u2019s foldable lineup will be eligible \u201cnext week,\u201d with the rest of the list getting the beta \u201cin September.\u201d So, as mentioned, we don\u2019t expect to see the full One UI 8 rollout until mid-late September at the earliest with that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>As Samsung explains (below), the One UI 8 beta program will be available in Korea, the US, the UK, and India.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Initially introduced with the Galaxy S25 series in May, the One UI 8 beta program will include the Galaxy S24 series, Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 beginning next week in Korea, the U.S., the U.K. and India.<\/p>\n<p>In September, availability will extend to even more devices, including the Galaxy S23 series, Z Fold5, Z Flip5, A36 5G, A55 5G, A35 5G and A54.1\u00a0Users can register for the beta program via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/sec\/apps\/samsung-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Samsung Members app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Samsung further adds that One UI 8 Watch will expand beyond the Galaxy Watch 8 series and Galaxy Watch Ultra starting sometime \u201clater this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More on Samsung:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Ben:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While we expected Samsung\u2019s One UI 8 update, based on Android 16, to start rolling out to older&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-120955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114976362529821780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}