When does the Galaxy S22 stop getting updates?
Samsung has committed to security updates for the Galaxy S22 until 2027-02-25 and feature updates until 2026-02-25. 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 active (OS upgrade) support ending 2026-02-25 and security support ending 2027-02-25 for Galaxy S22. Samsung's UK launch article stated the series would be supported by up to four generations of Android OS upgrades. These dates are Samsung's published window as recorded by endoflife.date, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
endoflife.date — Samsung mobile, retrieved 2026-09-06
- Shipped with
- Android 12, One UI 4.1Samsung Newsroom UK — Galaxy S22 and S22+, 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 active (OS upgrade) support ending 2026-02-25 and security support ending 2027-02-25 for Galaxy S22. Samsung's UK launch article stated the series would be supported by up to four generations of Android OS upgrades. These dates are Samsung's published window as recorded by endoflife.date, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
Recorded from endoflife.date — Samsung mobile, retrieved 2026-09-06
- Feature updates until
- 2026-02-254.0 years after release
- Security updates until
- 2027-02-255.0 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.
Upgrades end first. New versions stop on 2026-02-25; security patches continue for 1 year after that, to 2027-02-25.
How earlier models in this line fared
Earlier models in the same line on file, with the dates Samsung published for each.
| Model | Released | Feature updates until | Security updates until | Security span |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galaxy S21 | 2021-01-29 | 2025-10-06 | 2026-02-21 | 5.1 years |
What stops working first
Today
The Galaxy S22 shipped with Android 12, One UI 4.1; this site holds no record of the newest version it runs. Inside its security window: patches are committed to 2027-02-25, 4 months from 2026-10-18.
What to do with that
Nothing about the Galaxy S22 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 S22?; the full sheet is on the Galaxy S22 page. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All update timelines.