You can still resize Samsung Keyboard in One UI 8.5, just not as quickly

While most of us wouldn't consider Samsung's new One UI 8.5 update a game-changer, the latest version continues the company's recent trend of refining visual elements and streamlining the overall user experience.

One of the areas that saw a few changes in One UI 8.5 is Samsung Keyboard. Aesthetically, it looks virtually unchanged, but Samsung removed or altered a handful of key settings.

Most notably, the Samsung Keyboard toolbar menu in One UI 8.5 is now missing three features while adding a new one: Themes. The removed features are:

If you need to extract text, Samsung now instructs One UI 8.5 users to rely on the Camera app's built-in “Scan text” feature instead.

As for resizing the Samsung Keyboard, the option is still available, but the toolbar shortcut is gone. In One UI 8.5, resizing the keyboard now requires a few extra steps through the Settings menu:

Here, you will find the same keyboard resizing UI that existed in previous One UI versions. Functionally, nothing has really changed. Samsung simply removed the quicker toolbar shortcut, presumably as part of its ongoing efforts to simplify and optimize the experience.

This change appears to reflect Samsung's broader optimization efforts from the past few years. Rather than offering multiple ways to access the same features, newer One UI versions increasingly try to reduce redundancy and streamline navigation.

One UI 8.5 is now rolling out to more Galaxy phones across additional markets. Meanwhile, Samsung has already started testing One UI 9 on the Galaxy S26. One UI 9 is based on Android 17 rather than Android 16, so it might include more notable changes than version 8.5.