One UI 8.5 could bring two new camera watermark styles with a vivid look

With the One UI 5.0 update, Samsung introduced a feature that lets you add a watermark to the images captured using a Galaxy phone's stock camera app. With the next version of One UI 8, the South Korean firm will reportedly add two more camera watermark styles, and one of them will also reportedly affect the tuning of the images.

Tipster @UniverseIce recently revealed that Samsung will introduce two new watermark styles to the stock camera app with the next version of One UI 8 (likely One UI 8.5). These watermark styles appear inspired from watermark styles offered by Chinese smartphone brands like Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

As you can see in the images above and below, the new watermark styles add information about the phone's name, ISO value, focal length, exposure value, aperture, shutter speed, time, and date of the image capture. Compared to the existing watermark style, it displays a lot of information, as the current style only mentions the phone's name and the date and time of the capture.

One of these upcoming watermark styles displays the date and time of the capture towards the top left corner, while the other displays that information in the bottom right corner of the screen. There will also be a shortcut in the camera app to enable or disable the watermark.

These additional watermark styles will reportedly come to the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 first. While the tipster didn't reveal more information about its expansion, it could come to more devices in the future with the One UI 8.5 update next year.

Apparently, Samsung has tied these upcoming camera watermark styles with a new vivid image tuning. All the images with the new watermark styles will look brighter and more vibrant than the images with the watermark.

Until now, all images captured using Samsung's phones have just one type of image tuning. However, with the upcoming feature, they will have two tuning options: default and vivid. The tipster claims you can't choose the vivid tuning without the watermark.

The new vivid tuning is similar to the ‘Bright' image tuning style in the stock camera app on Vivo phones like the X200 Ultra. Tipster @UniverseIce also posted some images to compare Samsung's upcoming vivid image tuning with the Vivo X200 Ultra's bright mode.

Overall, images captured using the Vivo phone are brighter, but Samsung's images have more depth to them.