Samsung releases One UI 8.5 Beta 2, but it’s mostly bug fixes

Samsung has released a second beta update for its upcoming One UI 8.5 release, but there’s not much added this time around.

One UI 8.5 is Samsung’s next Android 16-based update for Galaxy smartphones and tablets. The update is expected to debut on the Galaxy S26 series and will bring several new features and design tweaks, too, as detailed in our prior coverage.

• Here’s everything new in Samsung’s One UI 8.5 update [Gallery]

The second beta update, rolling out now, brings a small changelog of its own that primarily focuses on bug fixes. It’s available for Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra and weighs in at just over 1.1GB.

Samsung’s list of bug fixes includes:

• Modified to enable dual recording and single take mode through Camera Assistant setting
• Improved the issue of initializing quick panel settings when booting intermittently
• Improvement of errors such as quick panel menu screen icon spacing, location, etc.
• Improved the issue of photos organized into gallery group folders being moved to the first album page
• Improved the stuttering issue when pressing the More View menu during a call.
• Improved rebooting issue while leaving it intermittently
• Improved the issue that the volume up button does not work under certain conditions
• Improved the issue of sound generation in the device when making a call with BT carkit connection under certain conditions
• Improvement of issues that are forcibly terminated while using multiple 3rd apps
• Stabilization of SW through multiple app updates such as cameras

Notably, this is also the first time we get to see Samsung’s updated software update page in One UI 8.5.

Samsung is also expanding the regions where One UI 8.5 is available with this update, as Tarun Vats notes on Twitter/X that the beta is now available in India and Poland. Samsung announced that these two regions would be included in the initial launch, but rollouts never came until now.

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