Samsung retains its top spot among its rival smartphone manufacturers when it comes to delivering software updates to its entire Galaxy ecosystem. Meanwhile, the company has ended security updates for some of its Galaxy phones and tablets, so check out the list of devices that will no longer support software updates, be it security patches or major OS updates, from 2025.
Well, security patches are, however, only meant for increasing the device’s overall security and adding stability; they don’t even bring any major features or changes for the phones, while the major OS updates work entirely opposite, these updates bring several new and exciting features for an intuitive user experience.
But at the same time, these security patches significantly improve the device’s overall security, core functionality, and efficiency.
Samsung releases its security patches each month, and follows the distribution of the security updates or patches on a monthly, quarterly, or bi-annual basis, but the Galaxy devices receive them on the basis of the software update frequency they are destined for. For example, if the Galaxy S25 series belongs to the monthly security update frequency, then Samsung will provide security updates to the lineup on a monthly basis.
Not just this, Samsung keeps on shifting a few Galaxy devices more often to maintain an easy balance among its large group of models. Meanwhile, Samsung has ended the software update support for several Galaxy phones and tablets in 2025, as they are out of their eligibility criteria, and their software update policy has already reached its end of getting any further updates in the future.
List of Galaxy phones and tablets whose software support has completely ended in 2025:
Galaxy S series:
- Galaxy S20,
- Galaxy S20 5G,
- Galaxy S20+,
- Galaxy S20+ 5G,
- Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G,
- Galaxy S20 FE,
- Galaxy S20 FE 5G
Galaxy Note series:
- Galaxy Note20,
- Galaxy Note20 5G,
- Galaxy Note20 Ultra,
- Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G
Galaxy A series:
- Galaxy A82 5G,
- Galaxy A72,
- Galaxy A52,
- Galaxy A52 5G,
- Galaxy A52s 5G,
- Galaxy A32,
- Galaxy A32 5G
- Galaxy A22,
- Galaxy A22 5G,
- Galaxy A12,
- Galaxy A03s,
- Galaxy A02s
Galaxy M series:
- Galaxy M62
- Galaxy M52 5G,
- Galaxy M42 5G,
- Galaxy M32,
- Galaxy M32 5G,
- Galaxy M22,
- Galaxy M21 2021,
- Galaxy M12
Galaxy F series:
- Galaxy F62
- Galaxy F52 5G,
- Galaxy F42 5G,
- Galaxy F22,
- Galaxy F12
Galaxy Tablets:
- Galaxy Tab S7 FE
- Galaxy Tab S6 Lite,
- Galaxy Tab A7 Lite,
- Galaxy Tab Active3
Galaxy W series:
- W21 5G
- W22 5G
