Your Samsung phone may soon read your PDFs before you do

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Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority


TL;DR

• New code spotted in One UI 8.5 firmware reveals a new “short summary” feature for the My Files app.
• When enabled, My Files would generate brief previews of the contents of TXT and PDF files without opening them.
• It is unclear if this feature relies on the cloud or on-device processing for these summaries.

Samsung’s next One UI release was long expected to be a significant update, but the leaked One UI 8.5 changelog provided a clearer sense of its magnitude. While the leaked changelog serves as a good baseline, we’ve now spotted code for new features in the leaked One UI 8.5 firmware that aren’t included in this changelog. In future One UI builds, the My Files app will soon receive a file summary feature to help you open the right file.

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Within newer One UI 8.5 leaked firmware, we’ve spotted new code that indicates that the My Files app will soon show short summaries for PDF and text files before the user even opens them.




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