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<\/p>\nOne UI 9 beta offers a more intuitive and personalized mobile experience with enhancements across creativity, accessibility and security<\/p>\n
One UI 9 Beta and the features highlighted in this press release are not yet available in Canada<\/p>\n
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the One UI 9 beta program, launching this week beginning with the Galaxy S26 series. Built on the new Android 17, One UI 9 beta delivers expanded creative tools, customization options, a more accessible mobile experience and stronger protection against potential security threats.<\/p>\n
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The full experience of One UI 9 will be introduced with upcoming Galaxy flagship devices later this year, which will include advanced AI features that will make mobile interaction easy and effortless.<\/p>\n
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What\u2019s New in One UI 9 Beta<\/p>\n
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One UI 9 beta introduces several updates across key areas of the mobile experience.<\/p>\n
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Samsung Notes[1]<\/a> gains creative new tools, including decorative tapes and a wider variety of pen line styles. Meanwhile, the Contacts app now offers direct access to Creative Studio for creating personalized profile cards without the need to switch between apps.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The updated Quick Panel[3]<\/a> gives users greater control over its layout. Brightness, sound and the media player are each independently adjustable, with more size options to suit individual preferences.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Accessibility is significantly improved by an adjustable Mouse Key speed that enables smoother cursor control and a combined TalkBack package that brings together features previously offered separately by Google and Samsung. The new Text Spotlight feature \u2014 which displays selected text larger or more clearly in a floating window \u2014 has also been added to make reading easier.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n One 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[4]<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Availability<\/p>\n The One UI 9 beta program will be available to Galaxy S26 series users in select markets, including Germany, India, Korea, Poland, the U.K. and the U.S starting this week. Galaxy .<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Service availability may vary by region\/country, OS\/One UI version, device model and phone carrier.
\n[2]<\/a> Requires Creative Studio app installation. Creative Studio feature requires a network connection and Samsung Account login. Service availability may vary by country, language or device model. The accuracy and reliability of the generated output is not guaranteed. Sticker can only be shared with other Galaxy devices. Edited images may be resized and will have a visible AI watermark. Any Samsung enhanced AI features and all third-party AI features are subject to different terms and may be subject to fees. (Galaxy AI basic features are listed under \u201cAdvanced intelligence\u201d in Samsung Services Terms and Conditions.)
\n[3]<\/a> Certain settings might be greyed out or will not appear if the feature is turned off.
\n[4]<\/a> Samsung\u2019s security policy updates are designed to improve device security through service operation policy changes and may include updates to\u00a0list of potential high-risk apps according to Samsung\u2019s internal assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One UI 9 beta offers a more intuitive and personalized mobile experience with enhancements across creativity, accessibility and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-671692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}