Earlier this month, Samsung had began rolling out the Android 13 OS based One UI 5.0 Beta update for its current gen flagship series, the Galaxy S22 lineup. Now, the company has also released this update for the previous gen Galaxy S21 series as well.
The South Korean tech giant has announced various features for the new One UI 5.0 Beta update. As of right now, the public beta update for One UI is currently not available across the globe and is only being released in select markets. So, Galaxy S21 owners in India are not eligible for this update, but the beta has began rolling out in South Korea and the UK as well.
The public beta update for the One UI 5.0 is only available for download for those that have already signed up for the beta program. For those interested, you can sign up for this program through the Samsung Members application, which will require you to fill in some details before you get notified for the update eligibility notification. As per official notes, The final update is expected to roll out to all eligible devices sometime in October 2022.
With the new One UI 5.0 beta update, Samsung brings the major Android 13 update as well as the new color palette of the new OS alongside various other features and UI changes. This includes the likes of stacked widgets, opt-in notifications for individual apps, and more. The updates also offers Optical Character Recognition, aka OCR, to the Gallery app, which basically lets users copy and paste texts directly from the images itself.
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