Samsung series owners Galaxy S25 got a pleasant surprise. With the arrival of One UI 9 Beta 1 (based on Android 17), Samsung brings to these last year's flagships one of the most interesting camera features, which until now was the prerogative of the newer series Galaxy S26 – Horizontal Lock.
Function Horizontal Lock was first introduced in the series Galaxy S26 as part of the regime Super SteadyIt uses gyroscope data combined with more pronounced image cropping to keep the recorded video level with the horizon. Whether you tilt the phone while recording, or even rotate it 360 degrees around its axis, the resulting video will still remain perfectly level and vertical.
Galaxy S25 One UI 9 Beta 1
WOW horizontal lock now available 😳 pic.twitter.com/OfRE3faGJW
— CID (@theonecid) September 1, 2026
The most interesting thing is that the feature stabilizes video even in real extremes. People weren't afraid to try it on a drill, in a washing machine, or with their phone attached to a moving bicycle. In each of these cases, the feature stood up and actually kept the horizon straight.
Live demonstration of this feature on a smartphone Galaxy S25 with beta One UI 9 was shared on X by user CID. In the short clip, he showed how the phone rotates completely during recording, while the image in the video remains stabilized and still upright.
From internal testing to public beta
The presence of the feature in the official beta is not a complete surprise. It has been previously Horizontal Lock discovered in an internal test version One UI 9 per Galaxy S25+, which suggested that Samsung was planning this feature from the series Galaxy S26 to be made available to owners of the previous generation. However, at the time it was not certain whether it would make it to the final or public release. beta assembly.
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First version One UI 9 Beta 1 for the series Galaxy The S25 is currently available for testers in South Korea, the UK, and India. Official changelog from Samsung does not contain all the news, but it is Horizontal Lock is proof that older models are gradually getting more advanced features from the series Galaxy S26.
