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The current iteration of Samsung Smart Hub will be no more in 2025

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Samsung just announced plans to shelve the current version of its Tizen-powered smart interface, replacing it with a version already familiar to many Samsung smartphone users: One UI.

Samsung noted that the change doesn't just extend to its lineup of TVs, but at least some of its home appliances, too. It aims to launch the new interface on TVs sometime in 2025, though it did not give a definitive release date, nor did it highlight if the change would extend to the Samsung 2024 TV lineup.

Samsung's One UI and AI

Samsung Tizen OS on TV in living room

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Samsung gave no word on how the One UI move might affect current Tizen features.

Tizen has long been a popular, open-source interface, serving up free content, app support, and extra features, such as the beloved Gaming Hub. It's now running on nearly 270 million smart TVs across the globe, according to an internal blog post. Samsung gave no word on how the One UI move might affect these features. It did, however, give word on the adoption of wider AI features.

This includes the Samsung AI Cast function, which allows Samsung Galaxy smartphone users to generate AI photos and use them as screensavers on their Samsung TVs.

Samsung also described its intent to expand Tizen's Daily Board function, allowing developers the ability to showcase widgets on your Samsung smart TV when it detects someone walking in front of it.

Many and more of these awesome concepts will most assuredly be a major push for Samsung at CES 2025, so stay tuned to Tom's Guide as the tech extravaganza draws closer.

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Ryan Epps
Ryan Epps
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Ryan Epps is a Staff Writer under the TV/AV section at Tom's Guide focusing on TVs and projectors. When not researching PHOLEDs and writing about the next major innovation in the projector space, he's consuming random anime from the 90's, playing Dark Souls 3 again, or reading yet another Haruki Murakami novel.