Samsung is about to make a lot of photo editing software feel redundant. Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked next week, the company is teasing a new AI-powered camera experience coming to the Galaxy S26 series. The pitch is straightforward: collapse the entire process of shooting, editing, and sharing into one system that doesn’t require you to know what you’re doing to get good results.
The details are still being held back for the official launch, but Samsung has dropped a few examples that hint at where this is going. The system can restore missing parts of objects, and the demo they used was a partially eaten cupcake restored to look untouched. It can flip a daytime shot into a convincing nighttime photo without any manual work. It can also merge multiple photos into a single image, which typically takes real skill to pull off without it looking like a mess.
None of these are entirely new ideas in isolation. Google has done similar things with Magic Eraser and Best Take. Adobe has AI-powered generative fill. But Samsung’s angle here is unification, bringing all of it into one coherent workflow rather than scattering tools across different apps and menus.
The honest question is whether the results hold up in real use, or whether this becomes another feature that looks polished in a curated demo and underwhelming on an actual phone.
Galaxy Unpacked is next week. That’s when the real answer arrives.
