{"id":181114,"date":"2025-09-25T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:03:10","slug":"samsungs-one-ui-8-5-lock-screen-blurs-your-notification-backdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181114\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s One UI 8.5 lock screen blurs your notification backdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/samsung-one-ui7-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret Samsung is working on One UI 8.5 ahead of the Galaxy S26 launch early next year. While we\u2019re still pretty far out from any sort of public beta, the company\u2019s internal build continues to leak new features online, including some long-awaited changes to the lock screen.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/one-ui-8-5-brings-blurred-lock-screen-notifications-new-clock-styles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SammyGuru<\/a>, One UI 8.5 is making a couple of tweaks to its lock screen, one of which should improve the readability of your incoming notifications. In Samsung\u2019s next update, your list of unread notifications should utilize a new blur effect, doing a better job to display text on a busy wallpaper. As it stands, lock screen notifications on One UI 8 are, in my view, relatively hard to read without a fairly basic \u2014 or pre-blurred \u2014 wallpaper choice. This should be a massive improvement, though it\u2019s unclear if this is the new default for everyone, or if you\u2019ll be able to select from a list of notification styles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"912\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/One-UI-8.5-blurred-lockscreen-no.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690326\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>One UI 8.5 also appears to introduce a handful of new clock styles. Samsung fans, rest easy \u2014 none of the ones in this leak appear to replicate the ultra-tall look seen in iOS 26, with the company sticking to its usual aesthetic instead. Both of the new options are fairly cartoonish in nature, utilizing curves and gradients to bring a bit of pizzazz to the lock screen. One of the two also includes a vertical orientation option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"472\" data-id=\"690327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/One-UI-8.5-new-clock-styles-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690327\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"472\" data-id=\"690328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/One-UI-8.5-new-clock-styles-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690328\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"472\" data-id=\"690329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/One-UI-8.5-new-clock-styles-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690329\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a handful of One UI 8.5 changes already leak out, including <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/23\/samsung-one-ui-8-5-leaks-liquid-glass-ai-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some fresh AI features and some serious Liquid Glass vibes<\/a>. I wouldn\u2019t say any of those influences are seen in Samsung\u2019s lock screen refresh, though with a few months to go before the Galaxy S26 and One UI 8.5\u2019s official unveiling, there\u2019s plenty of time for that to change.<\/p>\n<p>More on Samsung:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_557_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_871_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret Samsung is working on One UI 8.5 ahead of the Galaxy S26 launch early next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-181114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}