Galaxy S21 Series Receives Its Final Update: January 2026 Patch Lands

The January 2026 Android security patch is now available for the Samsung Galaxy S21 series phones. But this could very well be the last update that these smartphones will ever receive.

On January 14, 2021, these three phones were announced the Galaxy S21 (the first phone to be released), GalaxyS21+ and Galaxys21 Ultra. Three years of Android OS updates and five years security updates were promised to them, according to a statement from .

A couple of years ago, the security patches were kept on coming as the Android OS upgrades train left the station while the Security Patches continued to be rolled out until now. We’re in January 2026, five years from the launch of these phones, .

A Samsung hotfix update or something like that is always a possibility, but regular security support will not be coming anymore. And, if you own one of the Galaxy S21 phones then that is now good time for upgrading to your phone.

It says that with that, this update provides 55 security patches to the devices. While two of those are Samsung phones, 23 of them come from Google. A total of 4 fixes were added by Samsung Semiconductor, and 30 from the company’s sister service (Sama Mobile) have been provided.

While Samsung rated 1 fix as critical, and 28 of them marked “high risk” (as in the case with high-risk)? It is said that three patches are moderate-risk ones of . It began in South Korea, Samsung’s homeland to launch the update’ – its rollout. There is no surprise at all that .

You’ll get the update soon, even though the rollout started in Korea

But the fact is that, this update will be available to other markets in a few days so it may already be in your area by the time you’re reading this. When it comes to your area, it will be in stages so you may have to wait until the end of that is out there.

This is a way to speed up the process by going to Settings -> Software updates – Download and install (which doesn’t guarantee anything) but you can do so quickly. If the update is available your phone will notify you of it.

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