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Table 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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Charles Thuo’s career journey makes very little sense, at least until you sit down with him. By his own admission, it did not make much sense to his parents either when he walked away from a stable career path in America to chase logistics and trucking. “They’ve since come around,” he said, bursting into laughter. He studied engineering, served in the United States military, worked at aerospace giant Boeing, then walked away to drive trucks and build a logistics startup. But spend an hour with the founder of Apexloads—a logistics startup that connects cargo owners with transporters— his obsession with systems, and his frustration with broken ones, becomes clear. “I come from a very humble background, and that works in my favour,” Thuo says early into our conversation. “At Apexloads, we’re very scrappy. When we tell people we haven’t raised any money, they’re surprised. I learned resourcefulness growing up.” That resourcefulness now sits at the heart of a company trying to solve trust in logistics, one of Africa’s least glamorous but most consequential commerce problems. Apexloads is building digital infrastructure for transporters, brokers, and shippers, verification rails that Thuo believes could unlock financing, reduce payment delays, and remove inefficiency from East Africa’s freight economy. He believes logistics is about fixing the friction that taxes trade across the continent. Years spent working in the American trucking industry exposed him to systems where strangers transact seamlessly because trust is embedded into the infrastructure. Returning to Africa, he encountered endless paperwork, unverifiable operators, delayed payments, and an industry normalised around distrust. When we spoke, Thuo reflected on leaving Boeing, why Africa’s logistics startups keep failing, the cultural acceptance of inefficiency, and why verification, not payments, is the real bottleneck holding back African trade. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. When people introduce you today, they probably say, “Founder of Apexloads.” What part of your story do they consistently miss? The part that people miss is that I’m not a tech guy who discovered logistics. It’s actually that I was in logistics—I saw the inefficiencies, the waiting, dealing with brokers—and then I found technology and built a technology solution to solve that problem. You’ve lived several lives already: student, soldier, engineer, trucker. Which version of Charles Thuo do you trust the most? It’s not that the military is perfect. I was in some sketchy situations. But the military removes ambiguity. You either show up or you don’t. The mission either succeeds or it doesn’t. And you get to operate in that binary. That’s very important, especially whenever you’re dealing with a market like Africa; you have to have that clarity of mission. You can’t afford distractions or constant pivots. So I trust that version. I don’t trust comfort. The most important thing is having clarity of vision. How did being an immigrant in the US shape the way you think about building infrastructure back home? America taught me what infrastructure does, how things are supposed to work. And what you see is that trust is very cheap. In logistics, I worked for over eight years. I have never met a single broker. You work with strangers. You hire someone to deliver something from point A to point B. You get cash based on your invoices. Things just work because the rails are there. But when you come to Africa, you see the inefficiencies. That’s the real tax on commerce, because whenever trust is expensive, the transaction carries the entire cost of distrust. When you look at Africa, the only thing missing is that infrastructure. Because with infrastructure, everything else falls into place. The biggest frustration is the acceptance. Whenever I see inefficiency, that’s just a problem that hasn’t been solved. As an engineer, that’s exciting. But whenever you talk to people, and you get that cultural shrug—”Oh, this is Africa” or “This is how things work”—it’s very alarming. Because I see that the people who are supposed to fix things have kind of given up. And that’s what I find a little disturbing, because it’s a problem that can actually be solved. You earned US citizenship in uniform. Did that experience deepen your connection to Kenya, or complicate it? I got this strange feeling of what it means to fully belong to something that you’re not born into. And what you learn is that belonging is a choice. It helped deepen my connection to Kenya because these are things we take for granted. It’s one of the reasons I’m finding my way back. Even the problem we’re trying to solve, it wasn’t handed to me. It’s something we chose. And I can appreciate being Kenyan more now. Your journey reads almost like a controlled experiment in discipline—military, engineering, logistics. What habit from the US Army still shows up in how you run Apexloads? In the military, we had this thing called an AAR, an After Action Review. Every time you complete a mission, whether it’s good or bad, you do a debrief. Okay, what went wrong? What worked? That’s the most important thing for a startup because there are so many iterations. Sometimes I have to remind myself to celebrate some wins. But I’m more interested in figuring out what worked, because if it worked, you can double down. And what didn’t work, that’s just as important, if not more. That way, you can fix it. The advantage we have is that our customers’ performance windows are very limited. You’re talking to the same person. So the sooner you solve it, the easier it is to get to the next person. That debrief—after the day, after the week—to analyse it, examine it, that’s super important. Some of the products we’re releasing, especially around verification and acceptance, I find fascinating. Especially now, in the age of AI, people are very concerned about data, even if they don’t quite understand what that means. So there’s always that initial mistrust: “What do you need my Tax Compliance Certificate (TCC) for? What do you
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