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Table of contents What is One UI 9? What is new in One UI 9 Which Samsung Galaxy phones will get One UI 9 When will your phone get the update How to join the One UI 9 Beta Samsung has officially launched the One UI 9 beta, built on Android 17, starting with the Galaxy S26 series. The beta went live on May 13, 2026, in six countries, and the stable rollout is widely expected to land in July alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8. Here is what is confirmed, what is still based on reports, and what you can realistically expect for your phone. What is One UI 9? One UI 9 is the next major version of Samsung’s Android software, coming after One UI 8.5. According to Samsung’s Global Newsroom announcement on May 12, 2026, One UI 9 is built on Android 17, Google’s new annual Android release. Here is what Samsung has officially confirmed: Version: One UI 9.0, based on Android 17 Beta announcement: May 12, 2026 First beta pushed to devices: May 13, 2026 Eligible beta device: Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra only, for now Beta markets (Phase 1): United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and South Korea Beta markets (Phase 2, from May 26, 2026): India and Poland Stable release: Samsung says the “full experience” will debut on “upcoming Galaxy flagship devices later this year” Samsung has not officially confirmed a stable launch date. However, multiple credible reports from Korean outlets Seoul Economic Daily and Korea Economic TV, and backed by SamMobile and Tom’s Guide, point to a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22, 2026, in London. That event is where the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are expected to debut, running a stable version of One UI 9. Treat the July 22 date and London venue as reported, not officially confirmed by Samsung at the time of writing. What is new in One UI 9 Samsung says the beta is built around four areas: creativity, customisation, accessibility, and security. The bigger AI features are being saved for the stable release, so what you are seeing in the beta right now is lighter than past major One UI launches. Confirmed by Samsung’s newsroom 1. User interface and customisation: Quick Panel redesign: Brightness, sound, and media player controls are now independently adjustable rather than grouped together. You also get more size options to rearrange the layout however you want. Samsung Notes: New creative tools have been added, including decorative tapes and a wider range of pen line styles. Contacts app: You can now access Creative Studio directly from Contacts to design personalised profile cards, without jumping between apps. This requires the Creative Studio app, a network connection, and a Samsung Account. 2. Accessibility: Mouse Key speed adjustment: For users who navigate using an on-screen cursor via keyboard. Combined TalkBack package: Merges screen reader features previously offered separately by Google and Samsung. Text Spotlight: A new feature that shows selected text larger and more clearly in a floating window, useful if you have difficulty reading small text. 3. Security: High-risk app blocking: When Samsung’s security policy updates flag a new high-risk app, One UI 9 warns you, blocks installation and execution, and recommends you delete it. Reported by credible secondaries SamMobile, TechRadar, and 9to5Google have documented smaller visual tweaks that are visible in the first beta build, even though Samsung did not list them in the official press release: Thicker display brightness and volume sliders. The lock-screen media player widget now has colourful waveform animations. The audio-output picker also reads ‘This Phone’ instead of ‘Media Output.’ Some media control buttons now appear circular. Parental Controls have been moved to a dedicated section in Settings, away from the Digital Wellbeing menu used in One UI 8.5. SamMobile notes that One UI 8.5 already brought a major visual overhaul, so One UI 9 reads more like a refinement in these early builds. More features are likely to appear as later beta builds drop. Android 17 features Samsung inherits Because One UI 9 runs on Android 17, your phone should also pick up the platform improvements Google has built in. These are based on Google’s Android Developers blog and Android Central reporting: Floating app bubbles: Long-press any app icon in the launcher to open it in a floating bubble that stays on top of whatever else you are doing. On foldables and tablets, a bubble bar lives inside the taskbar. System-level Contacts Picker: Apps can no longer demand full access to your entire address book. Android 17 introduces a system picker that gives apps temporary access only to the specific contacts you select. Adaptive screen sizing: Google now enforces stricter rules for screens 600 dp or larger, preventing developers from locking apps to a single orientation on tablets and foldables. SMS and OTP protection: One-time codes are no longer delivered freely to apps that do not legitimately need them. There is also a new local network permission called ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK. Cross-device Handoff API: Lets you resume app activity across linked Android devices. This feature is still in Beta 2 of Android 17. Samsung has not officially confirmed which Android 17 features will appear in One UI 9 exactly as Google designed them. OEM software often reimplements system features differently. Treat this list as expected, not guaranteed, until the stable build lands. What is still speculative A redesigned Quick Panel music player that adapts colour to album art. This comes from tipster Alfaturk via Sammy Fans and is not in Samsung’s press release. Improvements to Now Brief, the feature that sends notification reminders during the day. Android Authority, via Sammy Fans, reported this based on early beta observations, but Samsung has not confirmed it. The ‘advanced AI features’ Samsung teased for the stable build remain unspecified. Samsung separately confirmed that Gemini Intelligence will arrive on Galaxy devices this summer but provided no specifics. Which Samsung Galaxy phones will get One UI 9 Samsung has
Read MoreTable of contents One UI 8.5 problems covered in this article Other One UI 8.5 problems users are reporting What to do if you have a general One UI 8.5 problem not listed here Samsung pushed the stable One UI 8.5 update on May 6, 2026, starting with the Galaxy S25 series in South Korea before expanding globally on May 11. The Galaxy S24 series, Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and foldables like the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 followed shortly after. Any major software update comes with a settling-in period, and One UI 8.5 is no different. Within days of the rollout, users across Samsung’s community forums, Reddit, and tech publications started flagging a range of problems, from aggressive battery drain to missing camera features and app crashes. Some of these are confirmed bugs Samsung is actively fixing. Others are intentional changes that caught users off guard. This article covers all of them and tells you exactly what to do about each one. One UI 8.5 problems covered in this article Here is a quick look at everything this article addresses: Battery drain on the Galaxy S25 after the stable update Galaxy Enhance-X losing photo editing features after updating Voice Recorder crashing when summarising recordings Key Galaxy S26 features missing on the Galaxy S25 Notification panel button shrinking and shifting position Dual Recording and Single Take moved out of the Camera app Problem 1: Battery drain on the Galaxy S25 Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra users are reporting heavy battery drain after installing stable One UI 8.5. One user on Samsung Members posted on May 12, 2026, that their Galaxy S25 drained 85% of its battery in a single day, with only 3 hours and 46 minutes of screen-on time. Their description: the drain was much more aggressive than during the beta phase. The same pattern is showing up on unlocked S25 Ultra units in the US and on some S24 Ultra devices that received the stable build around May 9 to 11. How to fix it After a big OS update, your phone spends a few days re-optimising background apps and reindexing storage. This can cause temporary battery drain. Give your phone 7 to 14 days before concluding. If the drain continues beyond that, work through these steps: Clear app cache for your most-used apps. Go to Settings > Apps, open each app you use heavily like Chrome, Gmail, Instagram, or WhatsApp, tap Storage, and select Clear cache. Do this for your five or six most-used apps. Samsung removed the full cache partition wipe option from the recovery menu with the February 2026 security patch, so clearing app cache individually is now the recommended alternative. Reset battery stats. Open the Phone dialer and type *#9900#. Scroll down to Battery stats Reset and tap it. Turn off Auto Blocker first (Settings > Security > Auto Blocker) and switch it back on after rebooting. Update all Samsung apps. Open Galaxy Store, tap the menu icon, and select Updates. Install everything pending. Run Galaxy App Booster. Open Good Lock, go to Good Guardians, and run a boost to clear resource-heavy background processes. Check background app limits. Go to Settings > Battery > Background usage limits, and set heavy apps like Facebook and TikTok to deep sleep. T-Mobile users: There is a specific fix for you. Keep reading below. T-Mobile Galaxy S25 fix: Uninstall the mobile services app update A Samsung US community moderator has confirmed that the latest version of the Mobile Services system app is causing unusually heavy battery consumption on T-Mobile Galaxy S25 devices. Samsung says a proper patch is coming, but you can fix it yourself right now: Open Settings and tap Apps. Tap the sort or filter icon at the top right of the app list. Toggle on Show System Apps. Search for Mobile Services and open it. Take a screenshot of the version number at the bottom of the page for your own reference. Tap the three-dot menu in the top right corner, then tap Uninstall updates. Confirm by tapping OK, then reboot your phone. The app rolls back to its factory version, and the drain stops. This workaround has also helped non-T-Mobile users, so if your carrier is different and you are still seeing a drain, it is worth trying. Problem 2: Galaxy Enhance-X loses features after the One UI 8.5 update After updating to stable One UI 8.5, some Galaxy users open the Enhance-X photo editing app and find that features like Filter Styles and Glow are simply gone, with no error or explanation. The app shows as installed and up to date, but those editing tools have disappeared from the in-app library. There is an important warning attached to this bug. One user tried to fix it by uninstalling Enhance-X and reinstalling from Galaxy Store. After uninstalling, the app stopped appearing in Galaxy Store search entirely, leaving no way to get it back. Samsung has not documented a re-installation path for this case. Samsung’s camera team has officially acknowledged the bug and confirmed that they are working on a fix. The plan is to roll it out in stages, device by device, and the moderator said it could take up to three days once the rollout begins. What to do right now The single most important thing: do not uninstall Enhance-X. Wait for Samsung to push the fix automatically. Here is what to do in the meantime: Leave Enhance-X installed. Do not touch the uninstall option. Check Galaxy Store for a pending update. Open Galaxy Store, tap the menu icon, and go to Updates. When Samsung’s staged fix reaches your device, it will appear here. If Enhance-X shows an Update prompt inside the app that leads nowhere, ignore it. That broken loop is part of the bug itself, and Samsung is patching it. Problem 3: Voice recorder app crashes during AI summarisation On One UI 8.5, the Samsung Voice Recorder app crashes the moment you try to summarise
Read MoreAfrica has been here before. Oil climbs above $100, import bills balloon, Finance ministers across the continent convene emergency sessions, and somewhere in a development bank boardroom, a clean energy investment pipeline gets quietly deprioritised while everyone waits for the price to come back down. In 2008, the global financial crisis interrupted a Brent spike that had touched $147. In 2014, the shale revolution drove prices from nearly $100 to below $40 in eighteen months, pulling the fiscal rug from under the African governments that had been using commodity revenues to fund energy access programmes. In 2022, the Ukraine conflict pushed Brent above $100 and briefly reanimated continental debates about gas-to-power development that climate commitments had put on ice. Each time, the clean energy narrative bent but did not break. Investment continued growing, but slowly, episodically, and far short of what Africa’s electricity access gap and its 600 million people without power actually demanded. Today, with Brent sitting above $110 following the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and S&P Global warning that Africa is disproportionately exposed to the largest oil supply disruption in recorded history, the question that every investor, policymaker, and founder in this sector should be sitting with is a simple one: is 2026 the year Africa finally converts an oil price shock into a structural clean energy shift, rather than another temporary bump? The honest answer, for the first time in the cycle’s history, is that the conditions for yes are all simultaneously present. What the pattern actually shows The chart below shows eighteen years of African clean energy investment alongside Brent crude, marking the four major oil price shock events in that period: the 2008 global financial crisis peak, the 2014 crash, the 2022 Ukraine spike, and the current Iran crisis. Previous oil shocks failed to lift Africa’s clean energy investment. 2026 is the first to arrive on a structurally different base. techcabal Insights Brent crude prices (USD/barrel) and Africa’s private sector clean energy investment (USD bn), 2008–2026 Clean energy investment Oil price shock year Brent crude price Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Brent crude annual averages, 2008–2025); IEA World Energy Investment 2025 (Africa private sector clean energy investment, anchored at $17B in 2019 and $40B in 2024). Intermediate and pre-2019 values are interpolated to align with the IEA trajectory. 2025–2026 figures are projections; 2026 Brent reflects the post-Strait of Hormuz market level. Adedayo Ojo/TC Insights The pattern is consistent and instructive. Academic research published in Energy Policy covering 53 African countries confirms that oil price shocks have historically had an adverse influence on Africa’s energy transition, with the effect most pronounced in net crude oil exporting countries, where rising oil revenues reduced the urgency of transition investment rather than accelerating it. In net oil importers, the picture is more complex. Higher import costs create fiscal pressure that should theoretically accelerate the shift to domestic clean energy, but in practice, the same fiscal pressure has repeatedly made it harder to mobilise the upfront capital that renewable energy projects require. The result has been a persistent disconnect. According to the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2025 report, private sector clean energy investment in Africa tripled from around $17 billion in 2019 to almost $40 billion in 2024, a trajectory that looks impressive until you set it against the continent’s actual need. The IEA estimates that Africa requires over $200 billion annually by 2030 to achieve all its energy access and climate goals, meaning the 2024 figure covers roughly one-fifth of what is actually needed. BloombergNEF’s Africa Power Transition Factbook 2024 captures the scale of the remaining gap precisely: Africa’s share of global renewable energy investment reached 2.3% in 2023, still below its 3% share of global electricity generation, despite the continent holding 60% of the world’s best solar resources. The number has moved, but it has not moved at the pace or scale that structural change requires. Three things have changed in 2026 that were not true in any previous shock cycle, and they are worth examining carefully. The three structural differences The first is cost. Solar and wind are now cheaper than coal and gas in countries like Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa, a condition that did not hold in 2008, barely held in 2014, and was only beginning to be true in 2022. The cost argument for delay has collapsed entirely. A finance minister who deprioritises a solar project in favour of fuel subsidies today is not making a financially conservative decision. They are making an expensive one, and the fiscal arithmetic now makes that visible. The second is the funding environment. The 2014 and 2022 shocks arrived at a moment when Africa’s clean energy financing infrastructure was fragmented, under-resourced, and largely dependent on a shrinking pool of Chinese DFI capital that has since contracted by more than 85%. Today, the financing architecture looks very different. The AfDB and UK-backed London Communiqué has created a clearer pathway for mobilising private capital into African clean energy, critical minerals and infrastructure, backed by the record $11 billion ADF-17 replenishment and a newly convened private sector innovation lab with over 150 institutional investors. Separately, the World Bank’s MIGA has approved a $1.65 billion guarantee framework specifically designed to reduce the risk perception that has historically stopped institutional capital from reaching African renewable energy projects, with six African countries in the first phase alone. The machinery to convert a price signal into deployed capital exists in 2026 in a way it simply did not in previous cycles. The third difference is the political framing. Climate compliance has always been a difficult sell in African capitals, where the political cost of energy poverty is immediate, and the reputational benefit of climate leadership is diffuse. New data from Fieldfisher shows that African renewable energy deal values quadrupled from $69 million in 2024 to $275 million in 2025, and analysts across the board now attribute the acceleration not to renewed climate ambition but to energy security concerns, a framing that
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