One of the design changes Samsung’s Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra offer over their predecessors, the Galaxy S24 series, is that they have a new rear camera ring design. While the previous phones had a subtle silver ring around the cameras, the new ones have thicker, ribbed rings around the cameras. 

Soon after their launch, it turned out that beneath these camera rings, there is another camera ring, similar to the ones that Galaxy S24 phones have, and the brand glued the new ones on top of those to distinguish the new devices from the old ones. Well, it looks like Samsung didn’t do a good job at it either, as the rings are coming off.

On X, @parthosarathi_b reports that on their Galaxy S25 Ultra, the ring on one of the cameras has come off, worsening the look of the device. Going by the user’s other post, it looks like the ring came off without any physical damage to the device. This shouldn’t happen on any smartphone, let alone one that costs upwards of $1,000.

Reportedly, rings on all the other cameras are holding strong. So, it looks like this is not an engineering issue. Rather, a quality control one. When the user visited the service centre, things weren't positive either. According to the user, the service centre didn’t have spare rings to fix the issue, and it has placed an order for the replacement items.

That means the user will have to wait and visit the service centre once again to get the issue fixed. This is not the experience one expects when they buy a high-end smartphone.

Samsung should have continued with the previous camera ring design and avoided gluing another ‘fake’ ring on the top. Doing so should have not only reduced the phones’ weight but also kept the outer rings from coming off. But what’s done is done. Hopefully, Samsung won’t repeat the mistake with the Galaxy S26 series.