Fans on both sides have long debated: Which came first—the Samsung or the Apple? Although only one of the tech giants has been taken to court for copying the other’s iconic design, the two parties have been inspiring each other for years. Notably, Apple tends to be more subtle with its reproduction. Samsung, on the other hand, well… just blatantly ripped off over a dozen Apple features and designs during its Galaxy S25 launch.

Appropriated intelligence

It’s no secret that Apple is lagging behind in the artificial intelligence race. While the latest Android phones are now equipped with advanced AI tools, the Apple Intelligence rollout has been drawn out, and its tools, comparatively, are somewhat basic. Nevertheless, the iPhone’s AI suite has clearly caught Samsung’s attention.

Apple Intelligence offers built-in ChatGPT integration with others, including Google Gemini, coming down the road. One of Samsung’s marquee AI features is that its AI infrastructure is designed to accommodate third-party chatbots, starting with Google Gemini over its own Bixby AI assistant.

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The Galaxy S25 has borrowed more than a few Apple Intelligence features.

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When you trigger Gemini, you get a text box featuring a colorful glowing border—just like Siri. Samsung also showed off how the chatbot supports both text and voice input. Meanwhile, selecting text brings up a UI that is almost identical to Apple’s Writing Tools, letting users proofread the selection, turn it into a table, etc.

Samsung then announced how its Phone app can now record, transcribe, and summarize calls, a perk familiar to iOS 18 users. Similarly, Galaxy S25 users will get to search for photos using natural language, summarize online articles, and turn photos into illustrations— Image Playground style.

Finally, the Galaxy S25 series will offer cross-app actions, letting AI agents search for and fetch information from multiple sources just like Siri App Intents. The approach similarly highlights the company’s commitment to users’ privacy, offering a mode that limits cloud processing.

That’s One familiar UI

Beyond AI-centric perks, Samsung previewed One UI 7 during the Galaxy S25 keynote. Perhaps this OS version’s signature feature is the Now Bar, which surfaces ongoing events—or, one could say, Live Activities. Like its iOS counterpart, it’ll not-so-originally highlight real-time sports scores, timers, and other similar tasks.

Samsung then proceeded to boast about the S25’s camera features, which include a few tricks your iPhone learned months ago. Notably, Galaxy users will finally get to record log video and edit audio to focus on the speaker’s voice or their surroundings.

The company even revealed its own take on Apple’s second-gen Photographic Styles, which lets our fellow green-bubbled folks apply advanced filters to their shots and control their tones.

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That’s not an iPhone—it’s the “new” Galaxy S25.

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