Samsung’s next big software cycle is still some distance away, but an early glimpse of One UI 9 is already pointing to a notable change inside a familiar app: Samsung Internet.

According to details pulled from leaked One UI 9 firmware, Samsung Internet could soon add a new feature called “Ask AI,” positioned as an expansion of the browser’s existing “Browsing Assist” tools. In today’s public versions, Browsing Assist focuses on tasks like summarizing and translating pages, reading summaries aloud, and surfacing news highlights. In the One UI 9 build described here, the language shifts in a way that’s hard to miss: it explicitly adds the idea of answering questions about webpages and other topics.

The strings found in the firmware suggest this won’t be a one-and-done prompt box. The feature is framed as something users can keep talking to, with support for follow-up questions while browsing. Even the phrasing inside the software leans into that conversational loop, using prompts like “Ask anything” and “Ask follow up.”

There’s also a privacy and retention angle baked into the same discovery. The leaked text states that when users ask questions, Samsung processes the page content and, for questions, browsing history. It also says past questions and answers are stored by Samsung to personalize results. That’s a meaningful detail, because it ties Ask AI’s usefulness to how much context a user is willing to share and how long they’re comfortable keeping that activity on record.

The firmware points to user controls for retention as well. A setting labeled “Keep Ask AI activity” is described as applying across devices immediately. In the build referenced here, a “Session only” option appears, with a note that activity may be retained for up to three days.

An updated report included a further development: the Ask AI feature has reportedly been shown working, with images captured of it in operation, and a separate team is said to have demonstrated it functioning and shared a video of the feature in action.

One UI 9 may still be months away, but the direction here is clear. Samsung isn’t just trying to make its browser summarize pages faster. It’s trying to make the browser something you can question while you read, and that changes what “browsing” looks like on a Galaxy phone if this feature ships as described.