Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S21 series has received its final updates and is no longer scheduled to receive further updates as of February 2026.<\/p>\n
In a move that was not unexpected, Samsung has pulled<\/a> the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra from its currently-supported list of devices. With this removal, Samsung is saying that it no longer has plans to issue updates to the Galaxy S21 series as of February 3, 2026.<\/p>\n We knew this was coming because Samsung dropped the Galaxy S21 series to a quarterly update schedule<\/a> last year. Typically, when we see devices drop from monthly to quarterly updates, they have 1 year remaining of support. We\u2019ve now reached that point.<\/p>\n The Galaxy S21 series originally launched in January 2021, so this puts us at a full 5 years of support. Do keep in mind that Samsung originally only promised 4 years of security patches, but later extended it to 5 years<\/a> and then met that commitment. Samsung did continue updating these phones until the very last minute too. We saw new builds arrive days ago<\/a> with the January security patch on Verizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S21 series has received its final updates and is no longer scheduled to receive further updates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-279890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}