Samsung Messages to Potentially Receive a Massive Upgrade in One UI 8.5 for Galaxy S25 Series Devices and S26 Series Devices

[GiantFan]

A new UI framework for Samsung Messages in One UI 8.5

Samsung’s “Liquid Glass” design language in One UI 8.5 isn’t just a visual effect — it requires new UI components, new animation hooks, and new rendering layers. Apps that want to use Liquid Glass need to be rebuilt on top of Samsung’s updated UI framework.

Samsung Messages is one of those apps.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

New UI Framework

• Liquid Glass blur effects

• New message bubble animations

• New reaction UI

• New long‑press interaction menu

• New media preview cards

• New chat header design

• New transitions and gestures

New RCS Features

• Full emoji reaction support

• Inline reaction rendering

• Improved group chat controls

• Better media handling

• More reliable Jibe provisioning

• Possibly message editing (if Samsung adopts the Jibe API for it)

This is the “big update” that reviewers haven’t seen yet is because of one of the following three reasons:                                                                                                                                                                                                           

• They’re not using Samsung Messages

• They’re not testing on S25 devices

• The UI changes aren’t fully live in the beta yet

[GiantFan]

Google Messages and Samsung Features

Trash Folder (Recycle Bin)
Google Messages is testing a “Trash” feature, similar to Samsung’s Recycle Bin. This will allow users to recover deleted chats within 30 days, just like Samsung Messages.

Samsung Theme Integration
However, there is no indication that Google Messages will adopt Samsung’s theme integration. Google Messages follows Material You design principles, which adapt to system colors but not Samsung’s Galaxy Themes. Samsung’s theming system is proprietary and deeply tied to One UI, so Google Messages is unlikely to support full Galaxy Theme integration.

Currently, the Trash folder feature in Google Messages is still in beta and not available in the stable version.

[yovizim]

That will be amazing 🔥 Google message is the most boring experience ever created on planet earth. ❤️ love if Samsung messages gets updated, there are so many cool things and personalization features that makes it so worthy

[ireallylikepigsokay]

when is this supposedly supposed to happen

[GiantFan]

The full RCS features and UI face-lift will happen with the release of One UI 8.5. This will supposedly happen sometime after the release of the Galaxy s26 series.
However, the S25 and S26 series phones will only have RCS capability on Verizon's and T-Mobile's networks.