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TL;DR Samsung’s working on One UI 9 internally, and early leaks have begun shedding light on what upgrades to expect.
New text strings shine a light on changes to accessibility features, including moving around how we access some.
Users relying on keyboards for input in particular can look forward to new functionality arriving.
Samsung’s One UI 8.5 update is maybe, just maybe tight on the cusp of arriving for existing Galaxy devices. But if you’ve been reading the latest news you’d be forgiven for assuming it had arrived by now, as our attention is already pivoting to One UI 9. Testing on the Android 17-based update has started internally at Samsung, but leaks have managed to give us some early peeks at what changes we can hope to expect. And as we continue to crawl through all that code, we’ve spotted some changes related to accessibility features in One UI 9.
The find we’re looking at today consists primarily of a series of text strings that appear to be getting ready for a “What’s new” screen that will introduce new One UI 9 users to the latest accessibility features coming to their phones.
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It’s worth noting that much of what we’re seeing in here isn’t necessarily new-new, and includes a mix with updates to old features and new UI placement. First, we’ve got some text strings referencing this screen:
Code Copy Text <string name="whats_new_in_accessibility_ps_title">What's new in One UI %s</string> <string name="whats_new_in_accessibility_button_try_it_out">Try it out</string> <string name="whats_new_item_talkback_content">Check out the latest updates.</string> <string name="whats_new_item_talkback_title">What's new in TalkBack</string>
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