I tested four camera phones and the Samsung Galaxy S25 still has a shutter lag problem

It’s not your imagination, the Galaxy S25 Ultra still struggles with shutter lag when you need it most.

May 9, 2025 - 19:07

I tested four camera phones and the Samsung Galaxy S25 still has a shutter lag problem

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Although Samsung’s flagship smartphones take great pictures, they’ve not been without issues in recent years. Shutter lag probably tops the charts of recent user annoyances; a slight delay between pressing the shutter and the picture capturing can make it hard to capture fast-moving subjects. Samsung has seemingly reduced the shutter lag issue with the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but in my experience, the problem still pops up on occasion — usually when you really wish it wouldn’t.

I didn’t need to retest like we did for the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s shutter lag to know it’s still there; I’ve been chasing two toddlers around with the Galaxy S25 Ultra for a few weeks and ended up with multiple blurry pictures. Pictures that I certainly feel would have turned out a lot better on some of the other brilliant camera phones I’ve tested so far this year. While certainly not noticeable in every picture, as soon as you’re trying to capture the action, it feels like you need to be able to see a split second ahead to keep everything in-frame. If you’re not fast enough, you risk your subject ending up at the edge of the frame, a blurry mess, or sometimes both. Not that either picture below is terrible, but hopefully, they illustrate the framing problems I’ve been having with Samsung’s latest Ultra flagship.