Not every new Galaxy phone is getting seamless updates after all

The Samsung Galaxy A55 5G was the primary Samsung phone to assist seamless updates, which is a extra handy technique to replace your machine. This function has since arrived on the Galaxy S25 sequence, nevertheless it seems that some new Galaxy telephones don’t assist it.

Dutch outlet Galaxy Membership studies that the not too long ago launched Samsung Galaxy A36 5G and A56 5G assist seamless updates whereas the Galaxy A26 5G makes use of the previous replace methodology. So what’s the distinction?

The previous methodology of updating Android requires your phone to reboot after downloading an replace. From right here, the phone is offline and exhibits an unskippable set up display for a number of minutes. Your phone is unusable whereas it’s on this display.

Against this, seamless updates see an replace being downloaded and put in within the background to a second partition. You may hold utilizing your phone through the primary partition in the course of the obtain and set up course of. You’re then prompted to restart your phone, and the machine seamlessly boots into the newly up to date second partition — no obligatory set up display. Seamless updates are additionally safer as the opposite partition is successfully a fallback within the occasion of a failed replace.

It’s an actual disgrace Samsung isn’t bringing seamless updates to all of its Galaxy telephones. Storage doesn’t appear to be the problem, both, because the Galaxy A26 5G has 128GB of house, which is consistent with Samsung telephones which have seamless updates. So this is one thing to concentrate on in the event you’re out there for a new Galaxy phone.