Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will no longer get updates, less for Note 10

Samsung will no longer release security updates for its more than four-year-old Galaxy Note 9. It has announced it on its website. Furthermore, the Galaxy Note 10 will only receive quarterly updates from now on.

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Updates

The good thing about Samsung is that the brand provides an overview on its website of all its phones and tablets that receive security updates. The company has now removed the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 from that list, GalaxyClub has discovered.

The phone turned exactly four years old on August 24, which means the update cycle is over. The Note 9 came with Android 8.1 Oreo and Samsung has updated the smartphone with updates up to Android 10. In her review, my colleague Claudia described the Note 9 as a “flagship for the niche”. The phone distinguished itself with its S Pen and slightly larger screen, but otherwise it was also somewhat in the shadow of the Galaxy S9 series due to its high price.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10

Samsung also announces in its update overview that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus will receive quarterly updates from now on. We expect that those smartphones will receive security patches until next year and that support will also stop for the Note 10 series after that.

The phones are also not eligible for Samsung’s new policy of five years of security updates. That only applies to the Galaxy S21 series, the Galaxy Z Fold 3, the Z Flip 3 and all newer devices. It is important that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite can still count on its monthly patches. After all, that phone came on the market six months later, in January 2020.

Do you still have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that still works fine, and is it time to buy a new one? Yes and no, we explain it here. Samsung and Google are currently the only Android phone manufacturer to provide their smartphones with security updates for five years. The European Union may soon change that.