{"id":73120,"date":"2025-10-11T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73120\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:58:10","slug":"one-ui-8-5-brings-thicker-icons-fresh-favorites-camera-shortcuts-and-more-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73120\/","title":{"rendered":"One UI 8.5 Brings Thicker Icons, Fresh Favorites, Camera Shortcuts and More Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung continues to fine-tune <a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/tag\/one-ui-8-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One UI 8.5<\/a>, and the latest internal build brings several subtle yet meaningful design and usability improvements. We discovered a host of changes in the new CYJ7 test build. While none are major overhauls, they show Samsung\u2019s attention to small details that enhance the overall experience. Let\u2019s take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>New One UI 8.5 internal build brings another round of changes<\/p>\n<p>One UI 8.5 will integrate Google\u2019s Nano Banana AI image generator into Now Brief, offering timely summaries of your activities.\u00a0The Contacts app gets a new look for the Favorites section. It now uses a large, card-based carousel that makes each \u201cfavorite\u201d contact easier to view and interact with. The refreshed layout looks cleaner and more dynamic, offering a modern feel while keeping usability front and center.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung is also integrating the Camera Assistant app more tightly into the camera experience. Even if you haven\u2019t installed the Camera Assistant add-on, you\u2019ll now see its shortcut directly inside the camera interface. marked with a download icon. Tapping it leads you to download the app from the Galaxy Store. Samsung already does that for Expert RAW on supported Galaxy phones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-UI-8.5-camera-settings.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1515481768\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30996 size-large\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"1024\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-UI-8.5-camera-settings-472x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the status bar icons (battery, signal, Wi-Fi, etc.) are slightly thicker in One UI 8.5, improving legibility and consistency with Samsung\u2019s evolving design language. Last but not least, the app drawer features <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tarunvats33\/status\/1976478947664863235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a shorter, floating search bar<\/a> at the bottom. Floating bars are a signature UI redesign in this update (as you can see in the Contacts app above).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-UI-8.5-status-bar-icons.jpeg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"748614042\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31000 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"237\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-UI-8.5-status-bar-icons.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One UI 8.5 may not look drastically different at first glance, but these <a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/one-ui-8-5-features-and-enhancements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing refinements<\/a> suggest Samsung is polishing the visual language it introduced with One UI 7 and improved with One UI 8.\u00a0The update remains under internal testing, with <a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/surprise-samsung-may-launch-one-ui-8-5-beta-in-november\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public beta builds<\/a> expected to roll out later this year. The stable version will debut with the Galaxy S26 series early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung continues to fine-tune One UI 8.5, and the latest internal build brings several subtle yet meaningful design&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,29531,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-73120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-one-ui-8-5","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}