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 may 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 HLG HDR videos and support for natural language in the Gallery app's search functionality to older Galaxy S series smartphones 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 HLG video recording to older devices
On the Galaxy S25, the Camera app can record videos with 10-bit color depth and HDR in the HLG format. However, with Samsung Good Lock‘s Camera Assistant module, you can make the phone record 10-bit color-depth HDR videos in the HDR10+ format, which is more popular among people, as you can check out in the screenshot below.
On older Galaxy phones, such as the Galaxy S23, the Camera app can record videos with 10-bit color depth and HDR in the HDR10+ format and there's no option to choose the HLG format in the Camera app or the Camera Assistant app. It means that on these phones, you have only one HDR format option instead of two on the Galaxy S25.
One UI 7 may not offer Galaxy S25 Gallery's natural language search to older devices
On the Galaxy S25, when 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 can say “can you show me screenshots” and it will bring up screenshots.
When you do the same thing on the Galaxy S23, 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 S23 doesn't.
It is worth mentioning that the fourth beta of One UI 7.0 offers natural language support for search in the Gallery app. However, going by the post from the tipster, it looks like Samsung may not offer it in the stable version of the OS.
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.
