Samsung’s Android 15 update is delayed until 2025

Ben Schoon | Oct 3 2024 - 11:19 am PT

Samsung has gotten a lot better about quickly releasing new Android updates, but it sounds like Android 15 will break that streak as the company has confirmed that the update won’t arrive until 2025.

Android 15 has been a weird release cycle, as Google for the first time launched its latest Pixel phones without the newest update. But in the time since, Android 15 has been released to AOSP and is due to launch on Pixel phones imminently.

Samsung, however, has reportedly been struggling with its Android 15 update, which comes with a major revamp to the company’s One UI skin.

The first beta of One UI 7 was expected to launch as early as August, but was reportedly delayed “indefinitely” due to various issues. We hadn’t heard much about the update for a while, but Samsung today confirmed that it will release its Android 15 update in beta “before the end of the year.”

But what about a full release?

In Samsung’s opening keynote for SDC 2024, the company confirmed that its Android 15 update won’t fully release until 2025 on “the next Galaxy.”

The official version of One UI 7 with all of the game-changing AI features will be released next year with the next Galaxy S series.”

In other words, we won’t see this update until the Galaxy S25 launches, likely in mid-late January. That’s a far cry from Samsung’s late-October release for the first stable Android 14 build last year, and will likely mean Samsung Galaxy users will be waiting up to 4 months, or even more, for the latest version of Android to be delivered to existing devices.

In a preview of One UI 7, Samsung explains its “brand new UX design” which had “three goals” in mind – “simplicity with purpose,” “impactful impression signature to Galaxy,” and having a more “emotional quality” to the design.