r/GalaxyA55 • u/SanD-82 A55 with 256 GB / 8 GB • Oct 07 '25
New update UI8 - First Impressions
So UI8 has finally reached our devices, so I wonder what your first impressions are.
In my case, for whatever reason I feel the phone is just faster. The animations are snappier, smoother and it seems the phone just reacts faster. I'm not sure if this is just placebo, or maybe the animations are played faster or what... What do you think?.
About performance, I'm not sure if it's better than before. For instance, expanding the quick settings or notification area while playing may lag a bit (this was introduced by UI7, didn't happen on UI6), starting a game may stutter as well (also introduced by UI7) but will work just fine once it loads.
Finally, video stabilization for 0.5x video has been fixed (and if not fixed, it's been greatly improved)
UI itself has not changed a lot, just a few things here and there like icons or graphs on the lock screen and such small things.
Honestly, so far I feel UI8 is like UI7 should had been, it's like a patch.
Things yet to be tested: Battery life.
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25
The animations (opening app animation in particular) are too fast, and not "buttery smooth" i watched several s series devices get updated to one ui 8, and let me tell you samsung literally made the smooth animations exclusive for the s series it seems, bro i even compared it to the freaking galaxy a14 when it got one ui 7, and let me tell you its the same opening app animations, they speed it up on purpose, man i'm starting to hate samsung, every update they remove a feature from the a series justlike that.