Samsung's new Home Up update finally works with One UI 8.5, but it comes with a deal-breaking bug that jams your animations if you use blur.

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Samsung drops a pretty sweet Home Up patch for its Galaxy testers in One UI 8.5.

One UI 8.5 might force dark-themed icons for all apps, giving the home screen a unified nighttime look. Samsung’s next update could also give app icons a subtle 3D redesign with drop shadows, ...

Leaked One UI 8.5 code shows Samsung’s My Files app will soon gain a “Short summary” feature. This AI-powered tool summarizes PDF and TXT files instantly in the file browser, eliminating guesswork and ...

Samsung pulled an Apple earlier this year with the launch of its latest smartphone software. Merely weeks after Google introduced Android 16 ahead of its usual annual schedule, Samsung also dished out ...

Samsung’s One UI 8.5 adds a missed call alert to the Now Bar, making the lock screen more useful at a glance. It’s small, but ...

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Samsung has started the beta testing program of its One UI 8.5. The early preview of the software reveals a brief visual redesign across system apps. Apple’s recent design philosophy inspires the new ...

Why is this important? The “Basic blocking” mode targets known ad-heavy apps, while the “Intelligent blocking” mode uses on-device analysis of notifications to detect and block ads dynamically.