One UI 9 on the Galaxy S26 can tell you how good or bad of a driver you are

Most people wouldn’t like being constantly judged for their driving skills, even more so if it’s done by an app. Besides the psychological barrier, driving style analysis, also known as “telematics,” raises privacy concerns. But would it change your mind if it could help you lower your vehicle insurance costs, and a Samsung phone helped you do it?

Samsung recently opened up One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series, and one of the features now coming to devices is Driving Insights. As we uncovered earlier this month, Samsung’s Driving Insights uses AI to analyze your driving patterns and offers feedback or suggestions to help you drive more safely or efficiently. Driving Insights can be found under Connected Devices in your phone’s Settings.

Like a slew of OBD port-based devices, Driving Insights relies on your phone’s sensors to determine key metrics, such as your average and top speeds, braking and acceleration patterns, and any instances of jerking the wheel. Based on this data, it offers you daily or weekly summaries decoding your driving style, and these reports could likely be delivered through Now Brief.

While a lot of people understandably may not be comfortable letting AI grade their driving skills, or may have privacy concerns over it, the data could help you lower your car insurance premiums. Several insurers offer discounts based on telematics, or insights about how you drive, though you would need to check if data from a phone qualifies for such programs. Additionally, this could help parents keep track of how their teenagers are driving, as well as owners ensure their chauffeur doesn’t exceed the speed limit or take the car for a spin without their knowledge.

In addition to rating how you drove, the app can also be used to designate a geofencing radius, and you would be alerted if your vehicle moves out of that zone. You can also set Home and Work locations for specific insights.

Driving Insights can be set to turn on automatically when you connect to a vehicle’s head unit via Bluetooth. We assume it should also work with wired Android Auto on your Galaxy S26. We’re already seeing the feature on our devices enrolled in the One UI 9 beta and will be testing it over the next few days. Hopefully, we’ll have some insights, either worth sharing or worth bashing.

Thanks, Dylan H, for the tip!