One UI 8 Beta 4 has the Purple Moon issue
One UI 8 Beta 5 fixes the Purple Moon issue as indicated in the changelogs. You’ll have to initiate the software update to fix this issue, but existing purple moon images won’t be modified; you’ll have to take new pictures.
One UI 8 Beta 4 was released on July 30th to the beta testers who are using their Galaxy S25 devices (excluding the S25 Edge) to use what would look like in the final version expected to roll out this September. As we’re getting closer to the second half of August, people began reporting a weird case that didn’t happen in both the previous One UI 8.0 beta versions and in One UI 7.0.
According to the official Samsung forums across countries like India, UK, and the USA, people began reporting that they’re trying to take moon shots at high zoom levels, such as x100, while those final pictures showed the purple moon instead of the expected white moon. The real color of the moon is white, but One UI 8.0 Beta 4 seems to save pictures with the purple moon as you can see below.
The following forum entries are posted, but not limited to:
- New Discovery of a Purple Moon?
- Anyone else on latest One UI 8 beta release experience purple moons?
- The Moon Is Now Purple
- One ui 8 beta
- Camara con UI 8 , samsung S25 Ultra
- Moon shots are showing as pink
- Moon appears in purple 😂😂
- Purple rai……moon
- Moonshot turns purple
- Re: Galaxy s25 Ultra weird moon photos
- Moon pictures
This issue only occurs when people try to take moon shots at zoom levels, with the minimum threshold to trigger this bug is x30. This only occurs under One UI 8 Beta 4 and with moon shots taken starting from the zoom levels of x30 to x100. Additionally, the resulting moon in the pictures looks blurry, compared to their One UI 7 counterparts.
There was even a comparison between shots taken on One UI 8 and One UI 7, where the latter was more correct. Moon shots taken using One UI 7 were correct, because it showed the white moon instead of the purple moon.
As a workaround, you can try turning off the maximum optimization and trying to take moon shots at high zoom levels. You can turn off the maximum optimization by going to the camera settings, navigating to Intelligent optimization, and setting it to values other than Maximum.
We expect that Samsung fixes this issue as soon as possible, before the final version gets distributed.
Photo by Andrew Hughes on Unsplash
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