Samsung holds off on One UI 7 rollout with another beta coming

Andrew Romero | Feb 7 2025 - 7:13 am PT

It was expected that Samsung would release the full One UI 7 update to Galaxy S24 users immediately after the Gaalxy S25 officially hit shelves, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case. Samsung is releasing yet another beta update to One UI 7, which pushes the full release even further.

The Galaxy S25 was the first lineup of devices to get the full version of One UI 7, and it’s proven to be a great OS. New One UI versions have historically exited beta shortly after the new phone gets released, which would be the S25 series in this case. Samsung is choosing to push that out a bit, meaning Galaxy S24 users will need to wait a bit longer.

A post from Ice Universe on Twitter/X notes that the next actual update to One UI 7 will be the fourth beta iteration, not the full release. Another beta update like this means Samsung still isn’t confident enough to roll out One UI 7 to the Galaxy S24 or any other device.

The image included in the photo is a screenshot of a reply from a beta testing admin. The message addresses a bug in One UI 7 that turns the screen yellow in the wrong color mode. The admin indicates that it will be fixed in beta 4, which means there’s likely to be at least one more beta version before the full one.

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Machine-translated response. Original via Ice Universe.

This isn’t a bad thing, and in the grand scheme of things, waiting a couple of weeks is better than getting a full version of One UI 7 that doesn’t work well or introduces lag to your device. It’s unknown why Samsung made this call, but it may have been the plan from the beginning.

The source indicates that the “official version is still a long way off,” though that seems hyperbolic. The benefit of the doubt would suggest Samsung will upgrade One UI 7 from beta anywhere from a couple of weeks from now to a couple of months. A “long way off” would suggest Q4 2025.