A One UI 9 Watch beta firmware for the Galaxy Watch 8 has been spotted on Samsung's servers. At the time, there was some hope that the public beta program would begin before the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 were officially unveiled. That would have mirrored what Samsung did last year, when it launched the One UI 8 Watch beta program for existing watches before unveiling the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic. The Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 have already been unveiled and have gone on sale in several markets, with both running One UI 9 Watch (based on Wear OS 7) out of the box. Samsung made the One UI 8 Watch beta program available for the Galaxy Watch 7, Galaxy Watch 6, and Galaxy Watch 5 lineups, even though the stable update was also released for the Galaxy Watch 4 series.