Today is a big day for the latest version of Samsung’s Android skin. Before this point, the One UI 6.1 update was already installed on almost 9 million devices, but the number is sure to shoot up in the next few weeks.
That is because today Samsung unleashed a barrage of One UI 6.1 updates. The new version of the skin is now rolling out to the Galaxy S22 family, the Galaxy S21 series, the Galaxy Z Flip4, the Galaxy Z Flip3, the Galaxy Z Fold4, and the Galaxy Z Fold3.
That’s a lot of devices, but there is one caveat: so far, the rollout seems to be confined to South Korea. That said, note that it doesn’t usually take very long for Samsung’s updates to spread across the world, so if you own one of the many aforementioned devices, One UI 6.1 should be on its way to you sooner, rather than later.
The cherry on top of the cake is the fact that, while we were expecting the Galaxy S22 series, the Fold4, and Flip4 to receive the Galaxy AI features that debuted with the Galaxy S24 family in January, it now seems like even the Galaxy S21 models, the Flip3, and Fold3 are receiving at least a subset of those.
This is great news of course and it means that Samsung’s goal of having over 100 million devices with Galaxy AI on them by the end of the year seems quite achievable indeed (when you factor in the upcoming launches of the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6, as well as all of the Galaxy S24 series devices already out there in the wild).
The Galaxy S21 lineup is only getting support for Circle to Search, but that’s not nothing, and it’s probably the best advertised feature of the entire Galaxy AI pack. The Flip3 is in the same boat, but the Fold3 surprisingly is also getting AI-generated wallpapers, webpage summarization, notes summarization, auto templates in Samsung Notes, live language translation, image editing suggestions, generative AI-powered editing, Interpreter Mode, and voice transcription in Voice Recorder.
The Galaxy S22 series, the Fold4 and Flip4 are receiving all of the Galaxy AI features of course, even though whether this would happen was up in the air for a while a few months back. Samsung chose to do the right thing in the end.
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Haslinda has worked with some of the largest telcos in North America and Asia. She loves tech and doesn’t like iPhone
