The latest One UI 8.5 update makes it harder to check your free storage

Samsung quietly removed the available storage indicator from the Device Care menu in the One UI 8.5 update. Galaxy owners updating to the new firmware are opening their settings only to find they have to do mental math to figure out how much space they have left.

Users with 512GB and 1TB devices are particularly annoyed. The new menu only displays the total storage capacity and the exact amount currently in use.

You now have to manually subtract the used space from the total. It’s quite the strange choice for Samsung to remove a handy feature like that.

As noted by Redditors, the old interface clearly showed the exact amount of free space remaining. A user named feleeek highlighted the missing metric in a recent r/oneui post. They shared comparison screenshots showing how simple things used to be on version 8.0.

Similarly, in another recent post on r/oneui, the OP shared a side-by-side comparison image of the Device Care page on One UI 8.0 and One UI 8.5 where you can see the change.

The OP mentioned the explicit storage number was a really useful feature. So it looks like Samsung users with eligible phones for the One UI 8.5 update will have to brush up on their Math skills. 

People are desperately looking for workarounds, but the alternatives are pretty bad. You can drop a storage widget on your home screen. However, users in another lively discussion quickly realized that the widget data is often completely wrong. It sometimes ignores the system partition overhead entirely.

One S25 Ultra owner noted their widget claimed they had 418 GB free. The system edge panel showed the actual number was 389 GB. Refreshing the widget does not fix the math error.

The only reliable native workaround right now is enabling the System Monitor Edge panel. That requires an extra swipe and digging through extra menus just to see a basic system stat.

Samsung has been stripping out several minor but beloved utilities lately. The company recently removed the ability to hide the battery percentage from the status bar.

That change just adds to a growing list of missing features in the One UI 8.5 update that users are finding as they explore the software. 

Fans are already losing patience. The rollout has been a bumpy ride since the One UI 8.5 update got delayed multiple times before finally hitting devices.

Samsung has not said if the old storage metric will return in a future patch or if users just need to get better at subtraction.

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