is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Samsung’s One UI 8 update seems to prevent users from unlocking their device’s bootloader to load custom ROMs, as spotted earlier by SammyGuru. By unlocking the bootloader, users can install custom software and make other modifications to their phone. Before One UI 8, this line had previously been set to “0” to enable bootloader unlocking in regions outside the US. Users spotted the restriction within One UI 8 beta builds for the Galaxy S25 as well.