One UI 9.5 may bring AI agent capabilities to Bixby on your Galaxy phone

According to a new report, Samsung’s One UI 9.5 update could give Bixby voice assistant a big upgrade with AI agent capabilities. Galaxy smartphone owners can currently use the Gemini app to run tasks in the background, but this may soon be possible via Bixby on Galaxy phones.

The folks at SamMobile reportedly obtained an upcoming version of Bixby and found that the voice assistant can carry out background tasks, like booking hotels or scheduling appointments. For this experiment, the publication asked the next-gen Bixby to provide the USD-INR currency exchange rate each morning.

This supposedly launched a recurring task visible on the Bixby app’s Actions page, which can be found in the sidebar. The process seems fairly straightforward. Users describe the recurring task they want to set up in a prompt, then confirm it.

After setting up a task this way, users can pin, delete, or pause it from the Actions page. Galaxy device owners could also be able to return to the chat where a task was first requested, or check the Activity log to see its status since it was set up.

Additionally, SamMobile has located two new features for the Voice Recorder app in One UI 9.5: Topical outline and Speaker summary. The former gives you a topic-based grouping of the audio recording, while Speaker summary lets you “Track what each speaker said.”

Topical outline may also help set reminders directly from the Voice Recorder app if the recorded conversation references a meeting or appointment for a future date/time. Samsung seems to be testing these features internally right now, so details on when they will roll out and which devices they will support remain unclear.

These aren’t the only One UI 9.5-related leaks to grace our news feeds recently, as the same source also gave us an early glimpse of the upgraded Samsung Health and Calendar apps last week.

One UI 9.5 is likely to debut with the Galaxy S27 lineup, rumored to arrive by early 2027, though there’s no date to mark on our calendars yet. However, we may not have to wait that long to know what’s new in the upcoming software, as a recent leak suggests Samsung is testing One UI 9.5 beta for the Galaxy S26 Ultra.