Honor MagicOS December 2025 upgrade officially rolled out; Check out the new features and upgrade plan

Honor has started to roll out its MagicOS 10 December 2025 upgrade that provides smarter features, improved details, and enhanced user experience overall.

Here are the details

Honor MagicOS December 2025 update

The upgrade arrives with more Yoyo image refreshes, a new trick added to the Yoyo map-playing experience, AI translation, parallel operation response, smart capsule reminder for card swiping, customised access card skins, clock function optimisation, improved interconnectivity features, animated photos in WeChat, and new personalised themes for the Honor 500 series.

Changelog

Honor AI & YOYO

[New]

• YOYO Image Play supports eliminating flaws with a single sentence using an animated GIF.
• YOYO PlayPic supports animated collages, instantly turning photos into animations and creating fun collages.
• YOYO Photo Assistant supports low-light enhancement, allowing you to fix photo brightness with just one sentence.
• YOYO Photo Assistant supports background blurring, intelligently recognising the subject and background to achieve a natural and soft background blurring effect.
• YOYO Image Enhancement supports colour enhancement and intelligent colour beautification, resolving issues with poor original image colours.
• YOYO Photo Assistant supports AI composition, allowing you to adjust the composition ratio and optimise the subject position with just one sentence.
• YOYO Photo Assistant supports sticker co-creation, generating four exclusive cute emoji packs with just one sentence.
• YOYO Play supports face-covering stickers. When you don’t want your face to be shown, you can generate a cartoon sticker to cover it with just one sentence.
• YOYO Photo Assistant supports an inspiration-assisted shooting feature, which intelligently recognises preview images and automatically recommends inspirational reference images, guiding poses and composition.
• YOYO Assistant supports image/video reply functionality on Honor PC, making information delivery more efficient through visual content.
• YOYO avatars support changing to various personalised avatars such as male, female, and dragon, and offer multiple…
• Staged, multi-emoji feedback interaction, covering calls, notification bar, status bar, lock screen, and more.
• AI translation supports text, image, voice, and subtitle translation, providing a one-stop solution for users’ diverse translation needs.

Honor theme & customisation

[New]

• New exclusive theme for brand ambassador
• Cute and cuddly dragon rocking ride theme
• Magical Family Theme, Custom DIY
• ‘Auspicious Fortune Telling’ theme

Honor interconnection

[New]

• When communicating, working, or playing games, the headset will not display a pop-up window upon reconnection, minimising disruption to the user.
• When right-clicking on an Honor PC or third-party Windows laptop, Honor Share is moved to the top-level menu, allowing users to quickly find it.
• Supports one-touch file transfer between Honor phones and Macs, making cross-brand and cross-category file transfer more convenient.
• The new one-touch printing function allows users to preview or select an image in the gallery, then simply tap the Hanprint CP2100 portable photo printer to automatically trigger printing.
• The file management app supports one-touch file transfer.
• Honor’s phone swapping and cloning app adds a user feedback entry point to listen to user voices.

[Optimisation]

• Recently shared devices will be discovered in the Honor Share interface without needing to turn the Honor Share switch on again.
• When sharing photos from an Apple iPhone or Mac to an Honor phone, you can sort and search by shooting date in the Gallery.
• The interface prompt message has been optimised when the Honor sharing channel is occupied.

Smooth performance

[New]

• Supports parallel desktop response operations when the Notification Center/Control Center is collapsed.
• When opening a folder, support parallel response operations for clicking on applications within the folder.
• Supports parallel response operations such as desktop swiping or clicking when collapsing a folder.

[Optimisation]

• Optimised launch animations and smooth user experience for third-party applications
• Optimise the graphics of some scenes in Genshin Impact.
• TikTok app performance experience optimised, smooth and fast scrolling in multi-image browsing scenarios

Apps & Settings

[New]

• WeChat chat supports sending and receiving live photos
• The camera watermark now features a new watermark exclusively for the brand ambassador.
• The camera now features a one-click image style restore function, optimising the camera’s user experience.
• The camera now features a new AI Ultra-Clear Portrait mode, which improves portrait sharpness and enhances the bokeh effect in night scenes.
• The camera’s night mode now includes two new styles: city and landscape. The city style enhances the contrast between warm and cool colors and the atmosphere of lights, while the landscape style improves the rendering of blue tones.

[Optimisation]

• The calculator supports voice reading of input and calculation results.
• The clock supports automatic deletion after the alarm rings.
• The clock supports displaying the time until the next ring.
• Honor Wallet supports NFC card swiping (access cards/transportation cards/car keys/campus cards) and features a dynamic capsule animation.
• Honor Wallet supports custom skins for access cards.
• Honor Wallet supports adding/using Alipay transit codes.
• Optimised camera app startup speed, enhanced smoothness in some video recording scenarios, and improved portrait mode image output speed.
• The camera’s image clarity, lighting and color reproduction, and overall shooting effects have been optimised. Improvements have also been made to exposure and focus stability, color accuracy in certain scenes, skin tone accuracy in portraits, color accuracy in indoor scenes, foreground effect in moon mode, and sharpness and focus accuracy in telephoto lenses.
• Stability optimisations have been implemented for features such as AI-powered portrait dynamic photos, inspiration-assisted shooting, and AI ultra-high definition, improving processing quality and accelerating processing time.
• The image gallery’s portrait collage feature has been optimised for edge blending, resulting in smoother and more natural image transitions.
• The file management system supports remembering the exit position, automatically recording the last page displayed when exiting and accurately restoring it the next time you open the file.
• Honor Docs supports remembering the last exit position, automatically recording the page you left on when you last exited, and accurately restoring it the next time you open it.

Other useful

[New]

• Eye-tracking page turning now includes page turning mode settings. The default is left and right page turning, with the option to turn up and down page turning.

[Optimisation]

• Pre-installed input method vibration effect optimised
• Optimisation of communication experience in certain scenarios
• Battery life optimisation in certain scenarios
• Improved system stability, fixed crashes of third-party applications in certain scenarios, resulting in more stable phone operation.
• The eye-tracking page-turning effect has been optimised, allowing for automatic page turning that follows your gaze while reading, freeing your hands and providing an immersive reading experience.

Upgrade Plan

• Honor Magic 8 series
• Honor Magic 7 series
• Honor Magic 6 series
• Honor GT Pro
• Honor Magic V5
• Honor 500 series
• Honor 400 series
• Honor Magic V3
• Honor Magic Vs3

To upgrade, go to Settings> System and updates> Software update> Tap the right corner> Try out the upgrade.

Disclaimer: The features and upgrades are translated from Chinese to English.

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