Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Moon Photos Are Turning Purple

A rather odd camera glitch has been spotted on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It is worth noting that it’s popping up for One UI 8 Beta testers only, it seems, not those of you who are on a stable version of One UI.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Moon photos are… purple?

In any case, this issue has been spotted in the latest One UI 8 Beta 4 update, and it’s appearing only in a very specific condition. It happens when you’re trying to take a photo of the Moon.

While taking your lunar shot, the Moon ends up being purple instead of white or gray. You can see the end result in the image below, and it sure is not pretty. Users on Samsung’s community forum say that the issue happens at multiple zoom levels, too.

It is happening at 10x, 20x, 30x, and even 100x zoom. The photo does look normal in camera preview, the purple issue occurs post-processing. This is obviously a bug in Samsung’s processing, and something the company will hopefully address before pushing this to the stable channel.

Disabling Scene Optimizer doesn’t help

Users have also noted that disabling Scene Optimizer doesn’t help, the issue persists regardless. What’s interesting is that this is not happening to every Galaxy S25 Ultra running One UI 8 Beta 4. Some of them say that the images look perfectly fine.

This is not a huge problem, as it happens only in a specific situation, for specific users, and only in the beta channel. It will become a much more of problem if the company doesn’t squash this bug in time.

The Galaxy S25 Ultra has been around since January, and Samsung really did fine-tune its camera since then. We are talking about the stable channel performance, though, of course.