First thing to try out after installing One UI 8.5 beta on your phone

Samsung opened the One UI 8.5 beta program today (December 12), and if you are in one of the eligible countries, you can register your Galaxy S25 (not the Edge model) if you want to test the software and its new features.

If you've already installed the beta software on your device, here is the first thing you need to try out.

The Quick Panel was already quite customizable, but with One UI 8.5, Samsung has made it completely customizable. You can add or remove any quick setting toggle, change the size of the toggles, and even switch between horizontal and vertical layouts for some items in the Quick Panel.

You can choose between 1×1 and 1×2 sizes for all the quick setting toggles. The display brightness and volume sliders also support 1×3 and 1×4 sizes and horizontal and vertical layouts. You can remove the media player widget from the Quick Panel if you don't find it useful.

While One UI 7.0 offered Quick Setting customization, people were not happy that the toggles for Smart View and SmartThings were not removable. And Samsung listened to people's requirements, as One UI 8.5 lets you completely remove both toggles.

In One UI 7.0 and One UI 8.0, when you try to add toggles to the Quick Panel, the phone displays all the available toggles together. One UI 8.5 organizes the available toggles into sections, such as Accessibility, Capture, Connected Devices, Connections, Display, Modes, Now Playing, Samsung Notes, Security and Policy, Sound, System Apps, and Utilities.

You still can't add one toggle more than once, though. Hopefully, Samsung will add that ability with the next big version of One UI next year. Still, overall, you can customize the Quick Panel to your heart's content, and it is one of the biggest changes you will see in One UI 8.5.