Galaxy S26’s latest beta update makes Bixby much easier to use

One UI 9 Beta 7 for the S26 adds hands-free Gesture wake-up and home screen widgets. Galaxy S26’s latest beta update makes Bixby much easier to use. Gesture wake-up lets users trigger Bixby by holding the phone near their mouth and speaking into the mic.

New Bixby widgets include 2×1, 2×2, and 4×2 options that make it easier to input voice or text. Samsung just released One UI 9 Beta 7 for the Galaxy S26 series earlier in the day. The official changelog was light on details, but we’ve found that the update comes with new features such as My FanCam, Call Brief, Custom Cards in Now Brief, and a split Finder-Google Search search bar.

Digging deeper, we’ve found that this release also comes with new Bixby features for the Galaxy S26 series, namely widgets and Gesture wake-up. Gesture wake-up for Bixby was released alongside the Galaxy Z8 foldables, and it has now made its way to the Galaxy S26 series in this beta release.