Replace warning issued for tens of millions of Galaxy house owners
Samsung has launched particulars of its first security update for 2025, which mixes the newest Android fixes (also just confirmed) with a raft of its personal. Nothing uncommon to date — and fortunately no pressing assault warnings to date both.
However what this will spotlight is the standard gradual burn rollout as gadgets wait their flip, lining up by mannequin, area and service by many of the remainder of the month. This frustrates customers, who watch Apple’s everybody, in all places updates with some envy.
Such is the ache in. this course of, that December’s safety fixes are still rolling out to some gadgets, and there’s no purpose to suppose this can change. Not less than not for house owners of flagships nonetheless on the month-to-month schedule — which means the S21, S22, S23 and naturally the S24 which is because of be displaced by the S25 this month.
And that S25 launch has critical implications for this month-to-month safety replace. Samsung is expected to introduce seamless updates for the primary time with its latest flagship, in addition to launching Android 15 by One UI 7. Seamless updates catch Galaxy up with one thing that has been out there to Pixels for years. An A/B system, whereby gadgets don’t want an extended reset to replace new firmware. The obtain is completed within the background after which a easy reboot allows the brand new software program.
Android 15 additionally brings an enormous swathe of new security advances — some from Google but others from Samsung, which has now set its stall out to catch iPhone (or a minimum of slender the hole) within the safety and privateness stakes, in addition to advancing its Galaxy AI — it hopes past something Apple Intelligence can but supply.
The standouts from January’s replace are 5 vital updates to Android’s core system, “essentially the most extreme” of which, Google warns, “may result in distant (proximal/adjoining) code execution with no further execution privileges wanted.” All different fixes of be aware — each for Android and Samsung — are excessive severity, however can nonetheless result in exploitation if found and compromised earlier than patching.
Though Samsung hasn’t issued any vital updates of its personal this month, it does warn that “some objects included within the Samsung Android Safety Replace can’t be disclosed right now,” which may imply extra critical notifications to return.
January’s replace will come first to these S24s operating the One UI 7 beta, with flagships anticipated to see the discharge very shortly—doubtless beginning with the S24 first. In the meantime, all eyes on the Galaxy S25 anticipated to launch one or round Jan. 22.
