Less than a week after pushing the stable One UI 8 update to the Galaxy S25 series, Samsung is already expanding Android 16 to its 2024 foldables — the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6. The update should also go live for the Galaxy S24 series within the next few days or later this week.
For now, Samsung is seeding the stable One UI 8 YCHC firmware to Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 owners in South Korea who are a part of the One UI 8 beta program. The update is relatively small at 600MB. The OTA for the public should be considerably bigger, at around 4GB.
Besides some bug fixes, the YCHC firmware bumps the security patch to September 1 on these foldables. You can download the update on your foldable from Settings > Software update > Download and install.
Since the Galaxy S24 also shares the same internals as Samsung’s 2024 foldables, its stable One UI 8 firmware should also go live sooner rather than later. Based on the Android 16 rollout for the Galaxy S25, the stable One UI 8 update for the Galaxy S24 and Samsung’s 2024 foldables should expand to non-beta users and more regions later this week.
Samsung’s official One UI 8 release schedule for Korea suggested the Galaxy S24, Z Fold 6, and Flip 6 would get the stable Android 16 update in October. But true to form, the company again seems to be beating its own timeline, rolling the update out earlier than expected.
Samsung is the king of Android updates
Once the wider One UI 8 rollout hits the Galaxy Z Fold 6, Flip 6, and S24, it will further cement Samsung’s lead over other Android manufacturers when it comes to software updates. At the moment, it’s the only brand to have updated its 2025 flagship to stable Android 16 — and if that wasn’t impressive enough, Samsung is now extending the same treatment to its 2024 foldables and flagships.
If anything, Samsung’s rapid rollout of stable One UI 8 should help offset user frustration over the long delay in One UI 7’s release earlier this year.
