One UI 7 may not offer these Galaxy S25 features to older devices

The Galaxy S25 series offers many new features over its predecessor, the Galaxy S24 lineup. Graciously, Samsung is offering many of these to older devices with the Android 15-based One UI 7.0 update, such as LOG videos and AI Filters. As for the ones that the company will not offer to older devices, we are now learning about two new ones.

On X, Tarun Vats claims that Samsung will not offer Galaxy S25’s ability to record 10-bit HDR10+ videos and search for photos and video in the Gallery app in the natural language to older Galaxy smartphones and tablets with the One UI 7.0 update. If you want to know what these features do and how important they are, read below.

One UI 7 may not offer Galaxy S25's 10-bit HDR10+ video recording to older devices

On the Galaxy S25, the Camera app can record videos with 10-bit color depth and HDR (HLG format). However, with Samsung Good Lock's Camera Assistant module, you can make the phone record 10-bit color-depth videos in the HDR10+ format as you can check out in the screenshot below, which is more popular among people.

On older Galaxy phones, such as the Galaxy S24, the Camera app can record videos with 8-bit color depth and HDR (HLG format) and Camera Assistant can't add 10-bit color depth or HDR10+ options on these phones, as you can see in the screenshot below.

Due to lower bitrate, videos recorded with older Samsung phones, in theory, have less color information, and therefore, don’t look as colorful or are as color-accurate as 10-bit videos recorded with the Galaxy S25 lineup. That being said, they still look very good.

One UI 7 may not offer Galaxy S25 Gallery's natural language search to older devices

On the Galaxy S25, where you open the Gallery app and tap on the Search icon, it will allow you to write a question or speak out your query in a natural language to search for a photo or video, just like you talk to a person. For example, you say “can you show me screenshots” and it will bring up screenshots.

When you do the same thing on the Galaxy S24, it will not show you any results. To see screenshots, you will have to just type “screenshots,” which is simpler but you get the point. The search function in the Gallery app on the Galaxy S25 supports natural language but that on the Galaxy S24 doesn't.

That being said, this isn't a very useful feature. So, you aren't missing out on much. Natural language search is just one of the many buzz words that that Samsung is using to lengthen the list of features that the Galaxy S25 offers.

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