So, what gives Samsung? You told inquisitors that in January 2026, you would start allowing this to be updated again on your phones. Well here we are Feb 2nd 2026 no update yet. Me along with probably the majority of your customers are sitting on September 2025 update, if not older...these updates do have a function, and I feel it's a disservice to keep us from getting them. Can't you're team separate those on beta builds and stable builds so you know for sure there will be no problems with updating? With as big a company as you are, I'd figure this wouldn't be a problem.
Even if they resume updates soon, I think November is the most current anyone's going to be until 8.5 officially rolls out. I have a feeling they're gatekeeping features. Shocker.
They claim its done because they thoroughly test out the Google updates before releasing to ensure the fixes work and don't cause other issues however what company doesn't do this? Also, there are many high priority vulnerabilities that have been patched in the Google updates and all this rigorous testing is leaving phones vulnerable to many issues since my last update of September 25. What's more, if you add up all of the vulnerabilities patches in Samsungs s25 through 2025 and compare to googles equivalent, Samsung had to patch for vulnerabilities which means all this thorough testing wasn't done effectively despite the claims
