Samsung’s One UI 7 OS won’t arrive until the Galaxy S25. Is ambitious software pushing us back to the dark days of sluggish updates?
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Samsung’s annual developer’s conference (finally) gave us a tiny sneak peek at the upcoming One UI 7 update, but those looking forward to jumping into the latest Galaxy interface will have come away disappointed. Samsung’s One UI 7 update schedule reveals that the new version will officially land with the Galaxy S25 series, which will likely debut around January or February 2025. That’ll be at least four months after Android 15 started rolling out to Google’s Pixel series — an age in the realm of modern updates.
By contrast, One UI 6 landed for the previous-gen Galaxy S23 in October 2023, so basically, this time last year. Likewise, One UI 5 debuted on the S22 series in October 2022, and stable builds of One UI 4 arrived for consumers in November 2021. In recent years, we haven’t had to wait for the next-gen flagship to get our hands on many of Samsung’s latest software goodies, earning the brand solid brownie points for putting software at the forefront of the Galaxy experience. Sadly, that’s not happening this year, and it could be weeks or even months after the Galaxy S25 launch before current Galaxy flagships see One UI 7.
It’s all starting to look like a return to the bad old days of sluggish updates, when customers were stuck waiting months and months for promised software to finally arrive. Google’s efforts with Project Treble and Mainline and closer collaboration with Samsung have vastly improved the Android update landscape in the past four or so years. And it’s not just update times that have tumbled; we’ve seen much longer-term update promises for flagships and even mid-range phones, too.
