Samsung's One UI 7 is reportedly delayed again — Is December still possible?

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Reportedly postponed due to bugs in the code

One UI 7 logo next to leaked screenshot of quick settings
(Image credit: Samsung / Ice Universe)

Samsung's Android 15-based operating system, One UI 7, was supposed to launch this week on November 17, but that date has come and gone with no signs of beta. A new leak suggests we might not see the much-delayed Android version until December.

The latest postponement comes to us from X user FamilyTaes (via Android Central), who claims that Samsung is pushing the beta back to the first week of December, at least S24 phones. Additionally, this would push back beta access for the Galaxy S23 lineup between two and three weeks from now, with the S22 series potentially not seeing the beta at all.

Alleged new One UI 7 features

Speaking of Ice Universe, this week they posted on X a number of new features that are supposed to get shown off during the mythical beta.

These include new animations across unlocks, apps, settings, transitions and moving apps and more. They said that more animations would be released from there.

This overhaul of the One UI interface is supposed to more fluid, faster and feature animations that make it both easier to use and, supposedly, more fun.

Last year, the One UI 6 update landed in November with a huge 6.1.1 upgrade hitting in September that brought a number of Galaxy AI features to older Samsung devices.

As Samsung, apparently, struggles to wrangle the next iteration of One UI, we do wonder what will be on the Galaxy S25 when it gets unboxed.

At the least, it will be a much more powerful device running Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processer with the a One UI 6 skin on top. At worst, it'll be that plus a buggy mess of something they're calling One UI 7.

We'll have to wait until January 23rd to find out.

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