Android updates: Huawei says goodbye, Samsung and Xiaomi are distributing major updates

ANDROID

June 06, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.

Instead of further Android updates, Huawei will soon be giving its phones an update to HarmonyOS. Important updates are also pending for devices from Samsung and Xiaomi.

• Xiaomi distributes a new user interface, Samsung important security updates.
• In the course of the month, various Galaxy cell phones and tablets in this country will receive the Android 11 update.
• Huawei wants to switch many cell phones from Android to HarmonyOS.

The South Korean company Samsung distributes security updates for the S21 and the older Galaxy Note 8. Xiaomi on the other hand, the new MIUI 12.5 user interface is rolling out for the Mi 10 Pro and other mobile phones. Huawei however, says goodbye to Android completely. We summarize the information in our weekly review.

Xiaomi

Attention users of the Mi 10 Pro. The Chinese company Xiaomi distributes the MIUI 12.5 user interface. The update is already available in Germany. It contains many new features such as a new design and optimized memory and battery consumption.

Xiaomi also has the Rollout of MIUI 12.5 for four more mobile phones started.

Samsung

Samsung is rolling out a new security update for the Galaxy S21 series

. With this, the security patch will be updated to June 2021. Furthermore, the update should fix an annoying camera bug.

Also the four year old one Galaxy Note 8 receives a new security patch. The May security update closes over 40 vulnerabilities in the operating system. You should definitely install the firmware.

Also in June six phones and tablets from Samsung received the Android 11 update. The One UI 3.0 user interface is also on board in the update.

Huawei

Huawei says goodbye to Android and relies on its own operating system HarmonyOS

. Round 100 Android cell phones from the manufacturer are to switch to the new operating system can, but so far there are only corresponding plans for China.

Android 12

A user on Reddit has in the Beta of Android 12 discovered a “game mode”which can be accessed from the “Digital Wellbeing” menu. The game mode should offer you a toolbar with access to functions such as screen recording and an FPS counter.

Furthermore restricts Google started sharing data with Android 12. Third-party apps such as the popular “Sharedr” application can no longer replace the “Share Sheet”. This was still possible with the predecessor Android 11. The first official beta of Android 12 is already available. You can use it to test new functions in advance.

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