Again in 2021, Samsung made a shock announcement round software program updates that will permit them to increase the variety of years they supported choose telephones. On the time, they offered a listing of units that may very well be eligible for “a minimum of 4 years of safety updates,” leaving room for added years. At present, the Galaxy Notice 20 sequence is seeing the optimistic aspect of that semi-vague quote, whereas on the opposite aspect of issues, a few units have seen their software program assist come to finish.

Samsung up to date its safety updates web page at the moment by shifting the Galaxy Notice 20 and Galaxy Notice 20 Extremely from its checklist of units receiving month-to-month safety updates to the checklist of these receiving quarterly updates. Along with that transfer, they’ll eliminated the unique Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Galaxy Tab S7, and Galaxy Tab S7+ from the web page fully, signaling the top of assist.

For the Galaxy Notice 20 and Galaxy Notice 20 Extremely, the drop to a quarterly schedule isn’t an enormous deal, nevertheless it does imply we’ll get a full 5 years of software program updates for every machine. These remaining Galaxy Notice units had been launched in August 2020, so that they have already seen 4 years of month-to-month updates. Beginning at the moment, they’ll now see updates much less, however ought to get bug fixer and safety patches inside every quarter. We’re nearly to the top of the road, Notice followers.

Now, for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, which was introduced in February 2020, Samsung is pulling the plug. The identical has occurred for the Galaxy Tab S7 line, a pair of tablets launched alongside the Notice 20 in August 2020. All three of those units have been pulled from Samsung’s checklist of units nonetheless receiving assist, so should you personal one, it is likely to be time to improve.

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