Samsung Galaxy S26 FE: AI Features Explained

The Galaxy S26 FE brings the Galaxy AI experience to Samsung’s most accessible flagship, with One UI 9 running on Android 17. It brings together a suite of intelligent tools designed to make everyday tasks simpler and more creative, from intuitive photo editing with Photo Assist to live translation, Audio Eraser, Now Brief and Circle to Search with Google. Built into the experiences you use every day, Galaxy AI helps you capture, create, communicate and stay organised with greater ease. Here’s a closer look at what each feature offers and how to make the most of it.

How Do You Use Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S26 FE?

Galaxy AI lives across the apps you use most, so there is no single menu to learn. In the Camera and Gallery, Photo Assist and My FanCam help you shoot and refine images and video. In the keyboard, Writing Assist helps you rewrite, summarize, and adjust the tone of your text. During calls, Call Assist adds features like live translation, and Browsing Assist can summarize and translate web pages in Samsung Internet.

Two features work quietly in the background to keep your day moving. Now Brief gives you a personalized daily briefing through customizable cards, including weather and wellness, and you can even build your own cards using prompts. Now Nudge reads on-screen content and suggests helpful actions, and it now works across selected third-party apps and notifications.

What Are the Best AI Photo and Creative Editing Features?

Photo Assist takes centre stage, giving you a simple way to refine images using natural-language prompts. You can transform day into night, add new elements or restore missing parts of a shot, while reviewing each edit step by step and making changes, revisions or undoing edits along the way. For video, My FanCam automatically tracks a person you select and keeps them centred as the scene moves, helping you turn dynamic moments into polished, social-ready clips with less manual editing.

The creative experience extends further with Creative Studio and Audio Eraser. Audio Eraser helps reduce or remove unwanted background noise from recordings, while Gemini Omni lets you create and refine polished video clips using the photos and videos already saved in your Gallery. These intelligent tools complement a versatile triple-camera system, led by a 50MP wide camera with OIS, a 12MP ultra-wide camera and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom.

How Do Galaxy AI Assistant, Translation and Search Work?

Beyond creativity, Galaxy AI brings greater simplicity to communication and everyday productivity. Interpreter enables real-time translation for face-to-face conversations, while Call Assist brings translation to phone calls, helping conversations flow more naturally across languages. Note Assist and Transcript Assist make it easier to capture and organise information, with tools for formatting, summarising, translating, and transcribing notes, recordings, and calls.

Finding information is equally intuitive with Circle to Search with Google, which lets you circle anything on your screen to explore it further and can identify multiple items within a single image. The experience is rounded out by thoughtful features such as Notification Highlights, which prioritises and summarises alerts, Weather Wallpaper, which reflects local conditions on your screen, and Health Assist, which provides personalised insights based on your Samsung Health data.

Is the Galaxy S26 FE Worth It for Galaxy AI?

The Galaxy S26 FE brings the complete Galaxy AI experience to a more accessible Galaxy S series device, combining intelligent features with the latest One UI 9 experience. Seven generations of Android OS upgrades and security updates provide long-term support, helping the Galaxy S26 FE stay up to date for years. Together, these capabilities make the Galaxy S26 FE a compelling choice for those looking for a capable, intelligent smartphone built to stay relevant over time.

Ready to upgrade? Buy the Galaxy S26 FE now on Samsung.com or through the Samsung Shop App.