- Another new One UI 8.5 feature has been discovered
- It’s called Prioritize Notifications, and it works as you’d expect
- A beta program may start sometime in November
Top Samsung phones are in line to get a major Samsung One UI 8.5 software upgrade in the next few months, and the latest feature to leak from the update should make it easier to deal with the pile of notifications that pop up every day.
As flagged by SammyGuru, a leaked One UI 8.5 build has revealed a new feature called Prioritize Notifications, which does exactly what you’d expect given the name: apply a higher status to some of your incoming alerts.
“Notifications that may be important will appear above other notifications to make sure you don’t miss them,” the feature’s text reads. “You can choose whether to prioritize notifications for each app in the app’s notification settings.”
There’s no further indication of how all this might work in practice, but it sounds useful – improvements to notification handling are always welcome. The description of the feature also mentions that the necessary content processing is done locally, so nothing is sent back to the cloud.
Coming soon
We expect to see One UI 8.5 roll out sometime after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S26 phones, but a beta test could start as early as next month. Of course, there is no guarantee that the Prioritize Notifications feature will make it to the final version of the software – it will change and evolve before its full launch.
There have been rumors of delays with Samsung’s upcoming flagship phone lineup for 2026, but it’s not clear whether this will affect One UI 8.5, which could roll out in full around January or February time – ahead of One UI 9.0 in mid-2026.
We’ve already seen a leaked hands-on video of Samsung One UI 8.5, which also revealed that the software upgrade could introduce a double-tap gesture that works on the back of the phone, just like iOS.
With other leaks showing a number of design changes and camera tweaks, One UI 8.5 is set to be a relatively big upgrade. Of course, we’ll let you know as soon as Samsung makes something official.
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