Samsung just confirmed it’s bringing the next-gen Virtual Aperture camera feature from the Galaxy S26 series to last year’s Galaxy S25 phones.

Last month, Samsung unveiled the latest Camera and Gallery features that arrived in the new flagship smartphones. At that time, the camera in charge didn’t reveal which new features were being planned for older models.

Virtual Aperture for 3x and 5x sensors

Samsung’s community moderators just confirmed something that makes the Galaxy S25 Ultra virtual aperture situation a lot more interesting.

The feature that debuted on the S25 series for the wide lens only? It’s coming to the telephoto and periscope lenses. A user in a Korean forum asked if the S25 Ultra could get virtual aperture support on the 3x and 5x zoom lenses through Expert RAW.

The moderator’s response was blunt. “Yes, we will support up to S25,” meaning the S25 gets it. Expanding virtual aperture to the 3x and 5x sensors makes total sense.

Samsung’s 3x and 5x cameras on the S25 Ultra are legitimately good. Giving them software-controlled depth just makes them more flexible.

Virtual aperture is Samsung’s software trick to mimic DSLR aperture priority mode.

Physically, your phone’s camera has one fixed aperture, but Samsung uses depth map data from the dual camera array to fake different aperture values in software.

It works well enough that people who’ve used it on the wide lens seem to like it. The depth maps got better this generation, so the blur looks more natural.

Thanks for the tip, Alfaturk!

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