When does the Phone (4a) Pro stop getting updates?
Nothing has committed to security updates for the Phone (4a) Pro until 2032-03-05 and feature updates until 2029-03-05. 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 spec table says Phone (4a) Pro will get updates for 6 years starting from when the device first became available on nothing.tech, including three years of Android updates and six years of security updates. Calendar end dates are 3 and 6 years after GSMArena's 2026-03-05 release date.
Nothing UK — Phone (4a) Pro, retrieved 2026-08-21
- Shipped with
- Nothing OS 4.1 powered by Android 16Nothing UK — Phone (4a) Pro, retrieved 2026-08-21
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 spec table says Phone (4a) Pro will get updates for 6 years starting from when the device first became available on nothing.tech, including three years of Android updates and six years of security updates. Calendar end dates are 3 and 6 years after GSMArena's 2026-03-05 release date.
Recorded from Nothing UK — Phone (4a) Pro, retrieved 2026-08-21
- Feature updates until
- 2029-03-053.0 years after release
- Security updates until
- 2032-03-056.0 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 2029-03-05; security patches continue for 3 years after that, to 2032-03-05.
How earlier models in this line fared
Earlier models in the same line on file, with the dates Nothing published for each.
| Model | Released | Feature updates until | Security updates until | Security span |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phone (3a) Pro | 2025-03-25 | 2028-03-25 | 2031-03-25 | 6.0 years |
What stops working first
Today
The Phone (4a) Pro shipped with Nothing OS 4.1 powered by Android 16; this site holds no record of the newest version it runs. Inside its security window: patches are committed to 2032-03-05, 65 months (5 years 5 months) from 2026-10-18.
What to do with that
Nothing about the Phone (4a) Pro 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 (4a) Pro?; the full sheet is on the Phone (4a) Pro page. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All update timelines.