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Mat Smith / Engadget
Beginning this week, Galaxy 26 owners tin trial thrust One UI 9, built connected Android 17. New features see a Quick Panel redesign and caller imaginative options for Samsung Notes. Try to incorporate your excitement.
Accessibility features whitethorn beryllium nan highlight. One UI 9 beta includes thing that folks who trust connected outer keyboards will appreciate: nan expertise to set nan rodent cardinal speed. There's besides a caller characteristic called Text Spotlight that lets you zoom and explain selected matter wrong a floating window. And TalkBack, Samsung's surface scholar pinch text-to-speech (TTS) tech, is now integrated pinch Google's characteristic of nan aforesaid name.
There's besides a neat caller information feature: One UI 9 could thief you to debar installing malicious apps. The package tin observe high-risk apps, pass you astir them, and artifact their installation.
The remainder of One UI 9's caller features are, shall we say, a spot ho-hum. Among them is simply a caller Quick Panel layout. The panel's brightness, sound and media subordinate controls are now independently adjustable, and it has much sizing options. Elsewhere, Samsung Notes gets caller ornamental integer tapes and much pen statement styles. And nan Contacts app now integrates pinch Creative Studio, truthful you tin make personalized floor plan cards without switching apps.
However, portion of nan logic for nan underwhelming characteristic database is that Samsung is redeeming caller "advanced AI features" for nan last version. The institution says One UI 9's last merchandise will get connected "upcoming Galaxy flagship devices later this year." That almost surely refers to Samsung's flagship foldables, rumored to motorboat successful July.
Galaxy S26 owners tin motion up for One UI 9 beta entree successful nan Samsung Members app. The programme is only disposable successful prime markets, including nan US, UK, Germany, India, Poland, and Korea. The institution says nan package will statesman rolling retired this week.
