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TL;DR Samsung got One UI 8.5 betas for the Galaxy S25 started last December.
The most recent, One UI 8.5 beta 8, arrived the last week of March.
A tipster now reports we have two more betas to go, both landing later in April.
At this point, how much of a tease does One UI 8.5 feel like? Samsung’s been dropping One UI 8.5 betas for nearly four months at this point, getting the ball rolling back in early December. While that’s recently been expanding to cover more and more Galaxy handsets, and we’ve even seen the start of One UI 9 testing, the One UI 8.5 beta period has just been dragging on and on for Samsung’s existing hardware, with the S25 getting beta 8 just last week. When in the world could we hope for the S25 to actually get One UI 8.5 stable?
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Well, according to one prominent source, it sounds like the end could finally be within sight. Over on not-Twitter-anymore, leaker Tarun Vats shares what he calls an exclusive find concerning Samsung’s One UI 8.5 beta plans for the Galaxy S25. According to his info, Samsung is planning to release two more One UI 8.5 betas across April: Beta 9 — expected around April 9th
Beta 10 — expected around April 20th That roughly two-week cadence would fit with Samsung’s recent beta schedule, so this sounds sensible enough on face value.
Well, what about an 11th beta, then? According to Vats, this is as far as Samsung’s planning to take us, and we should be getting “a total of 10 One UI 8.5 beta updates.” At least colloquially, that reads as 10 betas total, though if we’re being pedantic, beta 2 was the first One UI 8.5 beta update, so could we possible be getting 11?
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