Samsung was known for offering dozens of features in its products. However, over the past few years, it has removed features from its devices. This ranges from removing the IR blaster to bundled chargers and recently downgrading the S Pen.

So, some Samsung fans feared that the company might stop offering the S Pen in its future phones, but Samsung says the stylus is here to stay.

Samsung says S Pen will stay in its Galaxy Ultra devices

In an interview with TechRadar, Annika Bizon, VP of Product and Marketing of Mobile Experience (MX) UK, said, “Multimodal is really important to us […] So [that’s] how people use their phone – whether they're speaking, whether they're writing, whether they’re in a meeting. People do use their S Pens in meetings to write notes. So, I don't see a space where the S Pen is not a key part of our portfolio.

She continued, “And honestly, when you look at the Ultra, it’s something people genuinely come back to us around. [They ask us] Will it have an S Pen? And it goes back to the Note days […] We see the S Pen as something that is key to the Ultra experience at this point.”

This clearly shows that Samsung doesn't have plans to remove the S Pen from its future smartphones and tablets. At least not in the near future. So, it appears that the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which will be launched early next year, will have a built-in S Pen.

When TechRadar asked about the importance of the S Pen after the arrival of AI-powered drawing and if the capabilities offered by the S Pen aren't as unique anymore, Annika Bizon said, “Creativity is one of our core values. If you’re creative, you want to be able to draw and sketch things. And with Sketch to Image being one of our AI features, you can sketch beautifully using the S Pen. It’s got quite a big design edge.“

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