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TL;DR Samsung introduced USB webcam support with this year’s Galaxy S26 series.
The feature now returns on all three of the company’s new foldables.
After connecting to your PC over USB-C, tap your charging notification to activate webcam mode.
Samsung’s new foldables are finally official, and while this year everyone’s talking about the extra-wide hardware form factor debuting as the Galaxy Z Fold 8, there are nearly just as many reasons to be excited about Samsung’s latest software. These devices mark the arrival of One UI 9 stable, and we’ve spent a lot of time since documenting all the big changes present in this release. Our latest, though, actually marks the return of one upgrade we’ve already seen hit Samsung flagships before, as the new foldables all learn a handy USB trick.
We’re talking about the ability to connect your smartphone to a computer over a USB cable, and use your phone’s camera as a PC webcam. The Galaxy S26 series already offers this option, and Google brought it to Pixels back during the Android 14 era, but we’re always still happy to see it coming to more hardware.
While none of the Galaxy Z7-series foldables supported this option, we can confirm that it’s indeed present on the Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Z Flip 8 (Thanks: Dylan H).
Galaxy Z Fold 8 Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra Galaxy Z Flip 8
Just plug any of them into your PC, and then tap the charging notification on the phone to get your list of USB options — including webcam mode.
With the ability for (most of) these foldables to easily fold open halfway to act as a built-in stand or just directly prop the camera up, this webcam mode is arguably even more useful here than it was on the Galaxy S26.
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