Samsung has launched the September 2024 safety replace to the factory-unlocked items of Galaxy S21 collection units within the USA. The replace was launched for the worldwide variants final week and for the carrier-locked Galaxy S21 items yesterday.
Manufacturing unit-unlocked Galaxy S21 will get September 2024 safety replace in USA
The most recent software program replace for the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Extremely comes bearing firmware model G99xU1UESCGXH1 within the US. It’s meant for the factory-unlocked variations of smartphones and brings the September 2024 safety patch that fixes 67 vulnerabilities discovered within the earlier software program model.
Apart from the brand new safety patch, the replace does not convey something new to the Galaxy S21 collection. If you happen to have been hoping to get the One UI 6.1.1 replace that’s rolling out to different high-end telephones, you’d be dissatisfied to know that One UI 6.1.1 will not be launched to the Galaxy S21 collection.
The replace is now accessible on all service networks. In case you have a Galaxy S21 and stay within the US, now you can test for the brand new software program replace by navigating to Settings » Software program replace » Obtain and set up. It’s also possible to obtain the brand new firmware file from our firmware database and flash it manually.
The story continues after our Galaxy S24 assessment within the video under.
Android 15 will probably be Galaxy S21’s final main Android OS replace
Samsung launched the Galaxy S21 collection in early 2021 with Android 11 onboard. The telephones within the lineup obtained three main Android OS updates already: Android 12 (late 2021), Android 13 (late 2022), and Android 14 (late 2023). The units will now get the Android 15-based One UI 7.0 replace earlier than the tip of this yr, and that will probably be its final main Android OS replace.
The Galaxy S21 collection will proceed to get safety updates for a yr after it will get the Android 15 replace. If you wish to improve to a brand new cellphone, you must take into account the Galaxy S24 (watch it in our video above) or wait till the Galaxy S25 launches early subsequent yr. It’ll seemingly include a promise of seven years of Android OS updates.
