Samsung’s Galaxy S25 One UI 8.5 betas may nearly be over

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?

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?

Assuming we’re mostly just cleaning up some stubborn bugs in these later releases, hopefully this also means that we’re just a few more weeks away from Samsung’s stable One UI 8.5 release for Galaxy S25 devices — sometime in early May would make a whole lot of sense.

Of course, even after One UI 8.5 stable gets here for the Galaxy S25, Samsung’s still got a whole, whole lot of other Galaxy handsets to update, but we’d just love to cross the threshold for at least one before summer gets here!