Galaxy S25 Series Lacks Essential Android Security Feature

Samsung Galaxy S25 series lacks an important Android security feature named the ‘Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) that Google wants to make mandatory and available on all newly launched smartphones running Android 15 and above.
Samsung offered a bundle of new features and improvements with the newly launched Galaxy S25 series, except for a countable feature called Android Virtualization Framework. Mishaal Rahman, on X, shared a post revealing that the Galaxy S25 doesn’t support the AVF.
He also mentioned that if Samsung doesn’t offer this feature with Android 16, then it could be possible that the device won’t support the new terminal applications that allow you to run a Linux distro in a virtual machine. Android 15 requires new chipsets (vendor API level 202404) such as the Snapdragon 8 Elite to support AVF.
Noticeably, the Snapdragon 8 Elite can support AVF, but the Korean tech giant has disabled it, at least for now, and the reason behind this seems to be due to conflicts with their Knox hypervisor. It’s expected that the company may add this support in future updates since Android 16’s Terminal app is said to be shaping up to be an incredibly useful feature. However, Samsung has yet to release any official statement regarding this report.