When does the Galaxy A36 stop getting updates?
Samsung has committed to security updates for the Galaxy A36 until 2031-03-28 and feature updates until 2031-03-28. That is a published commitment, linked below, not an estimate.
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What is published
- Feature updates until
- Security updates until
Basis: Maker commitment, via endoflife.date
endoflife.date records OS EOL and security support both as 2031-03-28 for Galaxy A36 5G. Samsung's UK launch article states up to six generations of Android OS and One UI upgrades and six years of security updates. These dates are Samsung's published window, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
endoflife.date — Samsung mobile, retrieved 2026-08-20
- Shipped with
- Android 15, One UI 7Samsung Newsroom UK — Galaxy A56 5G, A36 5G and A26 5G, retrieved 2026-08-20
What the dates mean
Feature updates are new versions of Android and the maker’s software on top of it. Security updates are fixes for newly found flaws, issued without new features, and they continue after feature updates stop. A phone past its security date still works; it stops being patched. The dates above are the maker’s published window as recorded by the source linked, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
What Samsung actually committed to
endoflife.date records OS EOL and security support both as 2031-03-28 for Galaxy A36 5G. Samsung's UK launch article states up to six generations of Android OS and One UI upgrades and six years of security updates. These dates are Samsung's published window, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
Recorded from endoflife.date — Samsung mobile, retrieved 2026-08-20
- Feature updates until
- 2031-03-286.0 years after release
- Security updates until
- 2031-03-286.0 years after release
- Basis
- Maker commitment, via endoflife.date
OS upgrades versus security updates
OS upgrades bring new Android versions and features. Security updates are patches for newly found flaws, and they can outlast the upgrades.
Both dates are 2031-03-28: Samsung commits to new versions and to security patches for the same length of time, so nothing is patched after the last new version.
What stops working first
Today
The Galaxy A36 shipped with Android 15, One UI 7; this site holds no record of the newest version it runs. Inside its security window: patches are committed to 2031-03-28, 53 months (4 years 5 months) from 2026-10-18.
What to do with that
Nothing about the Galaxy A36 forces a move today. The row-by-row case for or against replacing it, with what it fetches used, is on Should I upgrade my Galaxy A36?; the full sheet is on the Galaxy A36 page. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All update timelines.