One of the best things about modern smartphones is the growing duration of software management offered by manufacturers. Samsung, Google and Honor offer seven years of updates for some of their devices, and although Apple does not indicate how long it will keep iPhone models, the company is currently taking care of phones published in 2018.
This means that you can buy a phone today and be convinced that it will always be safe and secure in the 2030s.
Unfortunately, not all companies are equal, and if you still use a smartphone manufactured by LG, it’s almost the end of the line. The famous mobile manufacturer announced that it closed its smartphones activities in 2021, dropping the curtain on a legendary phone history which included beloved handsets such as the 2006 LG chocolate cursor, the LG G3 with its incredible 1440p display in 2014, to the last form of the company.
When LG has thrown in the towel, some of his phones still had the software updates, including wing models and recently published such as LG Velvet and LG V60, so that the company has kept its online software servers to allow existing customers to access, download and install free updates for a few years.
As indicated by Android authorityLG now plans to permanently close its software update servers on June 30, 2025. After this point, you will be impossible for you to update your LG smartphone to the last available software, which, according to the phone you have, will be Android 12 or Android 13, since they were launched several years ago.
“We are announcing by this termination of the upgrading of mobile software from LG Electronics (FOTA), the Center and LG Bridge update services,” said LG on its website.
“After the termination of this service, the software upgrading service will no longer be provided. If necessary, please upgrade the software before the end of the service on June 30, 2025. (The termination of the service includes all the software upgrading services, including upgrades to the service center). ”
LG said in 2021 that any phone published in 2019 or subsequent version would receive three updates from the Android version of their release year.
It is not that LG has published many security fixes in recent months for its latest phones, it’s just that the servers are still on so that you can access updates if you have not already done so. I was a big fan of LG phones, but they were never the best for updates – if I remember correctly, you often have to go manually in the settings to check if you had the latest version, rather than the system announcing you.
If you have an LG phone that always gives kicks, go to the software update section of the Settings application to check if you have updates to download and install them before June 30. He could then, unfortunately, the time to think about getting a new phone because there will never be new security fixes for you.
I always have an LG V60 that I use to listen to high resolution music because it has a superb DAC (digital analogical converter) connected to its 3.5 mm helmet socket, a rare inclusion on a phone even when it was published in 2020. If you have an LG which gives a kick with a V music reader.
