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Samsung avoided Android’s seamless updates for nearly a decade, even as most of the industry moved on. Then, out of nowhere, it finally embraced the feature last year… only to make it available on exactly one phone in 2024: the Galaxy A55.
It wasn’t until 2025 that seamless updates became standard on Samsung’s flagships, starting with the Galaxy S25 series. And that’s why my daily driver, the Galaxy S24 Ultra, feels incomplete every time an update drops, especially after using the Galaxy S25 Ultra and still relying on it to test leaked One UI 8.5 firmware.
If you’ve used a phone with seamless updates, you know how hard it is to go back. Updates install in the background while you continue using the device, and a quick reboot finishes the process. That’s it. No downtime, no progress screen, and no “optimizing apps” message.
On the S24 Ultra, every update reminds me that this convenience doesn’t exist. I have to stop what I’m doing, reboot the phone, and wait for everything to install. It’s not the end of the world, but it is a step backwards. The S24 Ultra is still a beast of a phone, but when you’ve used the S25 Ultra and seen how smooth the update process has become, the older approach feels outdated.
I’m glad Samsung finally made seamless updates a standard feature, but there’s a catch: you only get it if you buy a 2025 Galaxy phone. Anyone using last year’s flagships, like the S24 Ultra or even the ultra-premium Galaxy Z Fold 6, stays stuck with the old system because Samsung can’t add this feature through a software upgrade (as it needs a different kind of disk partitioning).
It may sound like a small inconvenience, but Samsung rolls out monthly security updates to its flagship phones for the first few years, so that inconvenience adds up quickly. The S24 Ultra still does almost everything right, but the lack of seamless updates is a constant reminder that even premium phones can sometimes feel surprisingly behind only a year after launch.
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It wasn’t until 2025 that seamless updates became standard on Samsung’s flagships, starting with the Galaxy S25 series. And that’s why my daily driver, the Galaxy S24 Ultra, feels incomplete every time an update drops, especially after using the Galaxy S25 Ultra and still relying on it to test leaked One UI 8.5 firmware.
If you’ve used a phone with seamless updates, you know how hard it is to go back. Updates install in the background while you continue using the device, and a quick reboot finishes the process. That’s it. No downtime, no progress screen, and no “optimizing apps” message.
Once you experience seamless updates, there's no going back
On the S24 Ultra, every update reminds me that this convenience doesn’t exist. I have to stop what I’m doing, reboot the phone, and wait for everything to install. It’s not the end of the world, but it is a step backwards. The S24 Ultra is still a beast of a phone, but when you’ve used the S25 Ultra and seen how smooth the update process has become, the older approach feels outdated.
I’m glad Samsung finally made seamless updates a standard feature, but there’s a catch: you only get it if you buy a 2025 Galaxy phone. Anyone using last year’s flagships, like the S24 Ultra or even the ultra-premium Galaxy Z Fold 6, stays stuck with the old system because Samsung can’t add this feature through a software upgrade (as it needs a different kind of disk partitioning).
It may sound like a small inconvenience, but Samsung rolls out monthly security updates to its flagship phones for the first few years, so that inconvenience adds up quickly. The S24 Ultra still does almost everything right, but the lack of seamless updates is a constant reminder that even premium phones can sometimes feel surprisingly behind only a year after launch.
The post Why I hate installing updates on my Galaxy S24 Ultra appeared first on imeisource.