Are you noticing a strange blur in the photos on your Galaxy S25 Ultra? a solution is coming

Flagship Android phones can do some amazing things with their camera setups these days, resulting in incredible photos. But the more fancy and specific photography tricks you accumulate, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. The same thing appears to have happened with the Galaxy S25 Ultra camera feature, and Samsung says it’s being fixed.

Yesterday, on a user Samsung’s community forum (via saimiguru) raised an issue with the updated Virtual Aperture feature in Samsung’s Expert RAW app. In the translated post, the user said the effect is not working properly on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, with subject separation and background blur visible at 5x zoom.

Virtual Aperture sits in the Expert RAW app rather than the standard camera interface, and is intended to give more manual control over the depth-of-field look in your photos. Telephoto support for the feature was introduced on the Galaxy S26 series, before Samsung expanded it to older devices including the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Samsung responded immediately. A moderator on the forum responded to the post, saying that the company had raised the issue again through internal testing, had forwarded the findings to the relevant department and requested analysis. The moderator said that Samsung is planning to provide a solution through the S25 One UI 8.5 FOTA software update.

This is a fairly typical camera bug that many Galaxy S25 Ultra owners will never encounter. But it’s still reassuring for Samsung to admit that something isn’t working as desired and that there’s a fix in the pipeline.