When does the Phone (3a) stop getting updates?
Nothing has committed to security updates for the Phone (3a) until 2031-03-11 and feature updates until 2028-03-11. That is a published commitment, linked below, not an estimate.
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What is published
- Feature updates until
- Security updates until
Basis: manufacturer commitment
Nothing's UK footnotes say the Phone (3a) series will get updates for six years starting from when the device first became available on the market, including three Android updates and six years of security updates. Calendar end dates are 3 and 6 years after GSMArena's 2025-03-11 release date.
Nothing UK — Phone (3a), retrieved 2026-08-20
- Shipped with
- Nothing OS 3.1 powered by Android 15Nothing UK — Phone (3a), 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 Nothing actually committed to
Nothing's UK footnotes say the Phone (3a) series will get updates for six years starting from when the device first became available on the market, including three Android updates and six years of security updates. Calendar end dates are 3 and 6 years after GSMArena's 2025-03-11 release date.
Recorded from Nothing UK — Phone (3a), retrieved 2026-08-20
- Feature updates until
- 2028-03-113.0 years after release
- Security updates until
- 2031-03-116.0 years after release
- Basis
- manufacturer commitment
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 2028-03-11; security patches continue for 3 years after that, to 2031-03-11.
What stops working first
Today
The Phone (3a) shipped with Nothing OS 3.1 powered by Android 15; this site holds no record of the newest version it runs. Inside its security window: patches are committed to 2031-03-11, 53 months (4 years 5 months) from 2026-10-18.
What to do with that
Nothing about the Phone (3a) 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 Phone (3a)?; the full sheet is on the Phone (3a) page. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All update timelines.