Last updated: July 16th, 2026 at 16:27 UTC+02:00
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Public launch likely after the new foldables come out.
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One UI 9 is Samsung's next major firmware update, and while the beta versions have been out for some time now, the stable iterations have yet to break ground.
Where there's no confirmation as yet that this has actually happened, some reports do suggest that the first Galaxy S26 One UI 9 stable build has now been spotted.
Samsung has already released One UI 9 beta 4 for the Galaxy S26 series. According to Fahad Ali Javed on X, the first official stable One UI 9 build for the Galaxy S26 Ultra has now been spotted on Samsung's servers.
There's no need to be too excited just yet, though. This doesn't at all mean that we should see a stable One UI 9 release in the near future.
What typically happens is that there tends to be a period of at least a month, if not more, between when the stable builds first begin to surface and when they're released to the public.
Samsung opened up the One UI 9 beta program for the Galaxy S26 series back in May this year. It's possible that we may see a few more beta iterations being released before the stable version comes out, which we can only expect to hit our existing devices once the new foldable phones from Samsung are released in a few weeks from now.
First Samsung device: SGH-E900
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