2024 was a happy new year for Samsung in software. The company hit the table and was the first manufacturer of Android devices in Promise seven years of updates for your mobilesAnd these updates would be fast, as they had already demonstrated with the accelerated deployment of a user interface 6, based on Android 14.
The year 2025, on the other hand, is different. The company has taken more than what we imagined (and desired) to update the latest version of the operating system, a 7 -based user interface on Android 15. In fact, after finally published the update, Samsung should have taken it temporarily due to certain problems. Business He went from the update leader to suffer from delaysWhile other manufacturers have put the batteries.
To direct updates on problems and delays. What happened to an IU 7?
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Android updates have been a test for a long time. During the first decade of the operating system, we saw how many manufacturers, if not the majority, It took several months to update just a handful of devices At the latest version of Android, while others have been forgotten, receiving only security fixes but without being able to take advantage of the functions and improvements that included the latest versions of the system.
This, largely, was in the past. Android mobile manufacturers now guarantee several years of updates, and the first to do so was Google and Samsung. In fact, even Samsung for several months exceeded Google in number of years of updates: the Galaxy S and the Galaxy Z, their most upscale mobiles, They have seven years of updates insuredWhile some of their medium regions, the Galaxy has, will have six years of updates.
Samsung was so well in software that even made a historic alliance with Google for Outing in the Samsung Galaxy One of Android Stars Functions In terms of artificial intelligence: “Roda to research”.
However, the deployment of an IU 7 based on Android 15 was full of problems and delays. The latest version of the operating system It took much more time to get the previous versionA user interface 6, which had its launch only a few weeks after the arrival of Android 14, version of Android on which it is based.
It was the launch of an IU 6:
- Android 14 was published by Google on October 4, 2023
- Samsung launched a User interface 6 based on Android 14 on October 30, 2023 for the first devices
- Samsung launched a 6.1 user interface with the Galaxy S24 in January 2024, including the first functions of Galaxy AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Finally, Samsung launched an IU 6.1.1 next to the Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Galaxy Z Flip6 in October 2024, since November has started to reach the rest of the devices
The launching hours of a IU 7 were very different:
- Android 15 was released in its final version on September 3, 2024
- Samsung Lanza One UI 7 on February 7, 2025 with the new Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 + and Galaxy S25 Ultra, first devices to have this version
- The Galaxy A56 and the Galaxy A36 arrived on the market in March with an UI 7 factory. That is to say that the new galaxy had an IU 7 before the Galaxy S24
- Updating a 7 -based User interface based on Android 15 is starting to reach other users in April 2025
This update, according to alleged leaks, was full of challenges and development difficulties, so that the South Korean manufacturer has taken more time. The result is that most users of the Samsung Galaxy device, when writing this article, have not yet been able to take advantage of the news of an IU 7, including improvements in the interface and new artificial intelligence functions. On the other hand, this time Xiaomi has advanced to Samsung having updated more than 100 aircraft at Hyperos 2.0 (based on Android 15) in a few months.
Android 16 and one UI 8 are a new opportunity, and the first approach is fast approaching
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Could Samsungs recover leadership in Android updates? The answer to this question could appear on the new Android 16. Google has been working in the next version of the operating system for several months, and in fact, its launch should go ahead.
Samsung, on the other hand, also works on an 8 user interface, the next version of the operating system. Rumors and alleged leaks mention that the South Korean company could launch an IU 8 with its new folding, Galaxy Z Fold7 and the Galaxy Z Flip7 that Samsung could present in August this year, as was the case in the past generations of its folding.
But even if this is the case, although the new files arrive with the new version of a user interface based on Android 16, The most important thing is when the rest of the devices will receive this version. If Samsung accelerates the passage and manages to update its most recent mobiles to a user interface 8 a few weeks after its launch, already throughout three or four months, it brings this version to the rest of the compatible devices, the company would be positioned again as one of the fastest manufacturers that updates its devices. Only time will say if it is, but the opportunity is there, in the next version of the operating system.
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