When does the Pixel 6 stop getting updates?
The Pixel 6’s security-update window closed on 2026-10-01. It still works; it no longer receives fixes for newly found flaws.
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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 2026-10-01 for Pixel 6. Google's hardware spec page at launch stated five years of Pixel updates. These dates are Google's published window as recorded by endoflife.date, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
endoflife.date — Pixel, retrieved 2026-08-20
- Shipped with
- Android 12Google — Pixel phone hardware tech specs, 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 Google actually committed to
endoflife.date records OS EOL and security support both as 2026-10-01 for Pixel 6. Google's hardware spec page at launch stated five years of Pixel updates. These dates are Google's published window as recorded by endoflife.date, not a prediction of when updates will actually stop.
Recorded from endoflife.date — Pixel, retrieved 2026-08-20
- Feature updates until
- 2026-10-014.9 years after release
- Security updates until
- 2026-10-014.9 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 2026-10-01: Google 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 Pixel 6 shipped with Android 12; this site holds no record of the newest version it runs. Outside its security window: it closed on 2026-10-01, 1 month before 2026-10-18.
What to do with that
The Pixel 6 is past its window, and that is the one reason to move that does not depend on any specification. The row-by-row case for or against replacing it, with what it fetches used, is on Should I upgrade my Pixel 6?; the full sheet is on the Pixel 6 page. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All update timelines.