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TL;DR Samsung appears to be preparing One UI 8.5 to support TILTA wireless lens controllers.
The same hardware used to adjust focus with professional cameras could be used with Galaxy phones.
Samsung may initially feature this support with Galaxy S26 phones.
Samsung just took home our Reader’s Choice award for the best phone of 2025 with the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but will it be able to repeat that success next year? Even with Samsung’s launches still a couple months away, some of us have already been souring on the idea of the Galaxy S26 lineup, worried that Samsung’s gotten too complacent, and isn’t doing enough to keep things feeling fresh. Those concerns extend to the phones’ cameras, but even if we don’t get a big upgrade to camera hardware, we’re still spotting a few improvements on the horizon for Samsung’s camera software.
This one’s definitely a bit more special-interest than most of the features we uncovered in development for smartphone cameras, but it’s noteworthy for the extent to which Samsung feels like it’s explicitly looking to appeal to professional photographers, possibly looking to raise the profile of the Galaxy name in such circles.
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Looking into the changes present with Samsung’s Camera assistant app in One UI 8.5, we’ve identified some code strings describing new hardware support.
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