Samsung has pushed the second beta of One UI 8.5 to the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra, with the update currently limited to users in India and South Korea. It is a fairly hefty download at more than 700 MB, and it brings the April 2026 security patch along with a batch of bug fixes that should make the phones feel less beta-ish and more like, well, phones.
The most important fixes are the boring ones, which is usually a good sign: Samsung says it has addressed the delay or black screen that appeared during incoming calls, plus proximity sensor glitches while talking. It also says the update removes the green lines some users saw when recording 4K HDR video in certain camera apps, and it cleans up Bluetooth failures and broken multitouch behavior.
What Samsung fixed in One UI 8.5 beta 2
- Incoming call delay or black screen
- Proximity sensor issues during calls
- Green lines in 4K HDR video capture in some camera apps
- Bluetooth bugs
- Multitouch problems
That still leaves the bigger question: how many more beta builds are coming before the stable release? Samsung is expected to ship a few more test versions for the Galaxy S23 family, and the final One UI 8.5 update could land as soon as next month. That is a brisk pace, but not unusual for Samsung when it is trying to iron out the kind of issues that turn a polished flagship into a mildly annoying science project.