When’s the One UI 8.5 beta coming to more Galaxy smartphones?

Samsung kicked off the One UI 8.5 beta program in early December 2025, starting with the Galaxy S25 series. Since then, the beta has seen multiple updates, but as of January 22, it’s still limited to Samsung’s latest flagship lineup. Fans are now raising a familiar question: when will more Galaxy phones get access?

To get an idea, we can take a look at how Samsung handled other recent beta programs.

One UI 8.5 beta expansion could take a while

With One UI 7, Samsung launched the beta on the Galaxy S24 series in December 2024. The program didn’t expand to other devices until early March 2025, when foldables like the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 joined in. That put the first expansion roughly three months after the initial release.

The story was similar with One UI 8. Samsung opened the beta for the Galaxy S25 series in late May 2025. About two and a half months later, the program expanded to include the Galaxy S24 lineup, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7. Older flagships and some mid-range phones followed after that.

If Samsung sticks to this pattern, the first expansion of the One UI 8.5 beta for devices other than the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra should happen sometime around late February or March 2026, near or soon after the launch of the Galaxy S26 lineup.

The most likely devices to be included in that first wave are the Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra, along with Samsung’s latest foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7.

After that, Samsung will likely move on to older flagships like the Galaxy S23 series and, eventually, a handful of popular Galaxy A-series phones and tablets. Those will probably arrive later and in more limited regions.

For now, nothing is official. But based on Samsung’s recent One UI beta history, the wait for One UI 8.5 to reach more Galaxy phones may not be much longer, depending on how patient you are.

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Abhijeet Mishra - Editor-in-Chief

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Abhijeet's writing career started with guides for custom firmware for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. In addition to phones and mobile devices, his interests include gaming on both PC and console, PC hardware, and spending countless hours on YouTube watching videos on tech, movies, games, politics, and internet dramas.

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Abhijeet Mishra - Editor-in-Chief

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First Samsung device: SGH-D500