{"id":241296,"date":"2025-10-21T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241296\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:19:09","slug":"samsung-pauses-android-16-update-for-galaxy-s23-galaxy-s24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241296\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung pauses Android 16 update for Galaxy S23, Galaxy S24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Galaxy-S23-Ultra-and-S24-Ultra-2.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after it started, Samsung has officially paused the Android 16 rollout for the Galaxy S23 series just days after the same thing happened with the Galaxy S24 series.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung first started sending out One UI 8 updates to Galaxy S23, S23+, and S23 Ultra owners <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/29\/samsung-rolls-out-one-ui-8-android-16-update-to-galaxy-s23-tab-s10-a55-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the end of September<\/a>. The rollout has expanded to the global market in the time since, but it\u2019s now reportedly been paused as of October 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-s23-is-the-latest-to-suffer-a-one-ui-8-0-release-suspension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamMobile <\/a>reports that the rollout has \u201chit a snag\u201d and been paused. The reason for the delay is unknown, but it means that anyone with a Galaxy S23 that\u2019s yet to be updated to Android 16 will have to wait a bit longer for the update to arrive. Likely, there\u2019s some issue that was noticed as the rollout was underway that Samsung is looking to patch before sending the update to further users.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S24 series (including S24 FE) was hit with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/samsung-galaxy-s24-plus-ultra-one-ui-8-rollout-stopped\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">same delay last week<\/a>, again with the reason not made clear.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Samsung will likely resume rollouts in the next few days, give or take, so stay tuned for more!<\/p>\n<p>More on Samsung:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_557_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_871_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/43RjEnY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-692991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761059949_28_imazing-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few weeks after it started, Samsung has officially paused the Android 16 rollout for the Galaxy S23&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-241296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}