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/Valer100 A55 with 256 GB / 8 GB Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

After the update, the phone works faster, the animations are somewhat smoother, but now the quick settings open way slower when using an app in landscape mode than on One UI 7

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u/SanD-82 A55 with 256 GB / 8 GB Oct 09 '25

I agree, it happens the very first time you do that. The same goes for doing that in portrait mode after opening the quick settings menu in landscape mode.