Samsung Galaxy Enhance-X redesign: One UI 9.5 leak explained
Leaked screenshots suggest Samsung is preparing a significant interface overhaul for Galaxy Enhance-X, the company's AI photo editing app, as part of the upcoming One UI 9.5 update. The Samsung Galaxy Enhance-X redesign touches the home screen, the editing toolbar, and the app's navigation tabs, according to matching reports from SamMobile two days ago and Android Headlines one day ago.
None of this is available yet. Samsung hasn't announced One UI 9.5 publicly, and the update is reportedly still in internal testing with no confirmed release date, device list, or region rollout (SammyFans, three days ago). What follows is based on leaked build screenshots, not a Samsung changelog or beta release, so treat every detail below as reported rather than confirmed.
What the Galaxy Enhance-X One UI 9.5 update changes on the home screen
In the current public version of Enhance-X, the home screen displays a large banner promoting plugin downloads, with photo and video selection tucked into an expandable menu at the bottom. The leaked build replaces that layout with a full-screen file picker and shows gallery images directly on the home screen, according to both SamMobile (two days ago) and Android Headlines (one day ago).
Android Headlines frames the intent behind the change as making gallery images easier to reach and the editing tools more intuitive to use, cutting the steps between opening the app and picking a photo. That lines up with SamMobile's description of the same screens, which notes users can now jump straight into editing instead of digging through a separate menu first.
The leaked navigation bar still includes a Plugins tab, even though the plugin banner is gone from the home screen (Android Headlines, one day ago). That's the extent of what's documented. No leak report says whether plugin discovery changes, moves, or gets deprioritized beyond losing its home-screen placement.
Where Samsung moved Galaxy Enhance-X's photo editing tools
The editing screen gets its own set of changes. Right now, Undo, Redo, and Save buttons sit inside an oval pill container that floats over the bottom portion of the photo being edited. The leaked build removes that container entirely and shifts the buttons higher on the screen, a change described independently by SamMobile (two days ago) and Android Headlines (one day ago).
SamMobile notes the repositioning means the controls no longer obscure the image being edited, which was a real limitation of the current floating pill design. The bottom toolbar also switches from a blue gradient with icon-only buttons to a solid black bar with text labels under every tool icon (Android Headlines, one day ago). SamMobile adds that the labels should make it "much easier to identify specific features without guessing based solely on their iconography."
Neither outlet describes any change to what the editing tools themselves do, only how they're displayed and labeled. Worth remembering if you're hoping for new capabilities rather than a cleaner layout.
New navigation tabs: History replaces Library, Discover gets added
The app's navigation bar currently has three tabs: Plugins, Home, and Library. The leaked build shows four: Plugins, Home, History, and Discover. History takes Library's place in the lineup, while Discover is an entirely new fourth tab, according to matching reports from SamMobile (two days ago) and Android Headlines (one day ago).
Android Headlines describes History as giving users "seamless access to past edits." Samsung has used similar language before: the Photo Assist feature in One UI 8.5 lets users generate multiple edited versions of a photo, review them in an edit history, and pick favorites without saving every step along the way (Samsung Global Newsroom, 11 months ago). That's a useful comparison point for what an iterative history feature can look like in a Samsung app, but no leak source confirms that Enhance-X's History tab works the same way under the hood. Treat the resemblance as context, not proof.
Discover is the bigger question mark. Neither cited leak report explains what the tab contains, whether it surfaces editing tutorials, curated effects, or something else entirely. Until a hands-on leak or Samsung itself describes what's inside, Discover's purpose stays unconfirmed.
The Suggested tab disappears from the new photo editing interface
The current version of Enhance-X opens to a Suggested tab by default, showing a row of automated edit recommendations before a user touches a single tool. The leaked build removes that tab and its recommendation row altogether, according to matching reports from SamMobile (two days ago) and Android Headlines (one day ago).
SamMobile frames the change as a shift toward direct manual tool access rather than leading with automated suggestions when the app opens. That's worth noting against how Samsung originally pitched Enhance-X. At launch in 2023, the app's headline feature was Magic, a one-tap AI tool built to automatically fix blur, noise, and low detail without manual input (Samsung Global Newsroom, three years ago). That same 2023 announcement also describes HDR, Old Photo, Remove Shadows, and Fix Moiré as part of the app's original toolset.
None of the leak reports say whether Magic, Old Photo, HDR, or any other existing tool changes in capability, gets gated behind a subscription, or stays identical in the redesigned build. They only document that the Suggested tab and its default recommendation row are gone. Whether Samsung is quietly scaling back automated suggestions or simply moving them somewhere else in the app isn't addressed by either source currently available.
What Samsung has not confirmed
A few things are worth separating from the leak details above. SamMobile published its report first, two days ago, and Android Headlines described much of the same leaked build one day later. That overlap is useful corroboration of what the build actually shows, but it traces back to the same leaked screenshots rather than two unrelated sources independently verifying the redesign from scratch.
Samsung has not announced One UI 9.5, and the cited reporting places the update in internal testing with a possible debut alongside the Galaxy S27 series early next year (SammyFans, three days ago). No source confirms a device list, eligible regions, or rollout timing beyond that general expectation. Enhance-X currently works on select Galaxy S20 through S23 series phones, Note20 series, and several Z Fold and Z Flip models running One UI 5.1 or later (Samsung Global Newsroom, three years ago), but nothing in the current leaks says whether that compatibility list changes for the redesigned version.
It's also unclear how this reaches users once it's ready. Samsung used its Members app to let Galaxy S25 owners in select markets apply for the One UI 8.5 beta 11 months ago (Samsung Global Newsroom, 11 months ago). That's a reasonable guess for how a One UI 9.5 beta might roll out, but no report confirms Samsung Members as the enrollment path for this specific update, or that a public beta is even planned before a stable release.
Current Enhance-X users don't need to do anything right now. The redesign exists only in unreleased build screenshots, and there's no beta, update note, or Galaxy Store listing reflecting any of it yet. Check the Enhance-X page in the Galaxy Store periodically for update notes, and watch for an official One UI 9.5 beta announcement before expecting this interface to show up on an actual device. Until Samsung or a hands-on leak explains what Discover actually contains and whether tools like Magic and HDR carry over unchanged, there's nothing to test and nothing to install.
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