Samsung is truly outdoing itself with the stable One UI 8 rollout, spreading the Android 16-based update to a bunch of high-end phones. in South Korea.
After surprisingly releasing not just the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 with One UI 8 out the box, but the Galaxy S25 FE as well, Samsung set some very ambitious targets for the over-the-air delivery of the new Android 16-based update to many of its older devices, and for the time being, it looks like (many of) those goals will incredibly be met or even exceeded.
Before you get too excited, allow me to stress that there’s no point in checking your phone for a notification to download the official collection of One UI 8 goodies outside of South Korea. just yet.
Even in Samsung’s homeland, the stable update appears to only be available at the time of this writing for Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 users who participated in the two foldables‘ public One UI 8 beta testing program. That makes the update uncharacteristically small, at only around 600MB, but don’t worry, everyone else will (eventually) get a massive 4GB or so package filled with (largely subtle) UI tweaks, handy new features, various performance enhancements, and security patches.
That’s actually the approximate size of the update currently rolling out for all Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra units in Korea, and more importantly for the vast majority of people reading me right now, it’s what the three phones (and the Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6) are set to receive across many other territories very soon.
