While announcing the latest Galaxy S22 series, Samsung confirmed that the newly announced devices will receive 4 major OS updates and security patches for 5 years. That means devices will get up to Android 1 and security patches until 2027.
The good news is that this announcement also covers 2021 flagships. Originally these devices were promised 4 years of software support. Now, these devices will get a year of extra patches and one more OS update.
Here’s the list of devices covered under the recent promise.
Galaxy S22 smartphones
Galaxy Tab S8 tablets
Galaxy Z3 foldables
Galaxy S21 series