What you need to know
- Previous rumors suggested that Samsung would release a camera fix for the Galaxy S24 Ultra this month, but that now seems unlikely.
- A reliable leaker suggests that a major camera update for the Galaxy S24 Ultra won’t be available until June.
- Despite top-notch camera specs, the S24 Ultra disappoints users with issues like HDR and telephoto camera performance.
There were recent rumors that Samsung would release an update this month to fix the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s camera issues, but now it looks like that won’t happen.
Reliable leaker Ice Universe says a major camera update for the Galaxy S24 Ultra won’t be available until June (via SamMobile).
The S24 Ultra’s camera update has been delayed, at least until June.April 24, 2024
In early April, the same tipster claimed that an update for the Galaxy S24 Ultra is on the way, promising solutions to issues like poor image quality at telephoto, faulty white balance, and strange red tones. It now looks like this is the update that was held back.
Although the Galaxy S24 Ultra has top-notch camera features, the image quality is not optimal. On the Samsung forums, people are venting their frustration over the camera issues they’ve been facing since purchasing the phone. The main problems include, for example, the not entirely convincing HDR function and the telephoto cameras that do not meet expectations.
At the end of March, Samsung tried to remedy the situation with an update to improve the camera game on the Galaxy S24.
Samsung typically releases a major camera upgrade for its top-of-the-line Galaxy phones around June every year. Last year, for example, the Galaxy S23 received a sweet update in June 2023 that beefed up portrait modes with 2x zoom and smoothed out HDR processing.
Samsung is currently quite busy rolling out the One UI 6.1 update to its smartphones and fixing a number of bugs that came along with it. Therefore, it may make sense for the company to put the brakes on these special camera upgrades for the Galaxy S24 Ultra for now.
With any luck, Samsung will use this delay to solve the numerous camera-related issues that Galaxy S24 users are facing. Aside from the lackluster HDR performance, the phone also struggles to capture moving subjects like children and pets, according to various posts on Reddit and Samsung community pages. This problem is a constant headache with Galaxy phones and it seems like Samsung hasn’t done much to solve it.