Samsung's S26 Beta 7 Brings Fold8 Features to S26 Lineup

Samsung has quietly rolled out the seventh One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series, and it brings more than just bug fixes. The update lands on the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra with a download weighing in at roughly 1.2GB and a firmware tag that ends in ZZHK.

Remember the bells and whistles Samsung showed off on the Fold8? You don't need a foldable to try a few of them now. This build stitches in features like Custom Cards inside Now Brief, the new My FanCam camera experience and a tighter home-screen integration that unifies Finder with Google Search widgets. Small changes. Big difference in day-to-day use.

Why push these features to a flagship slab? Because Samsung is treating UX as a platform, not a product line. Rolling select Fold8 innovations into the S26 series smooths the gap between form factors and gives users a taste of what the foldables have been testing.

The roll-out is limited to several markets for now: South Korea, India, Germany, Poland and the UK. If you signed up for the One UI 9 beta and you're in one of those countries but haven't seen the prompt yet, go to Settings > Software update and check manually. Patience helps, but a manual check often beats waiting.

This is the second beta wave in quick succession — the sixth landed earlier this week — which suggests Samsung is iterating rapidly as it heads toward a stable release. Expect tweaks and refinements rather than headline-grabbing additions from here on out.

If your phone picks up the build, leave time for the update to finish and let the device optimize apps afterward. Those final steps matter. Otherwise, you’ll be testing new toys from a company that keeps repurposing smart ideas across its ecosystem.