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Samsung announced that it would offer seven years of software updates with the Galaxy S24's release in January 2024, giving the company's newer models some of the longest software support guarantees among Android phones . This initially only applied to Galaxy S- and Z-series phones, but the company later extended this to its lower-end A-series phones — though with only six years of updates instead of seven. However, S- and Z-series phones released before the announcement and budget devices that came out before the extension still generally follow Samsung's older policy of four years of OS updates and five years of security updates.

The average lifespan of a Samsung phone depends on whether it came out before or after this announcement. The Galaxy S24's seven years end in 2031, while the S23 (released a year prior in 2023, before the announcement) will stop being supported in 2028.…