One other 12 months, one other Samsung smartphone that isn’t fairly utilizing Android to its full potential. The brand new Galaxy S23 lineup is once more not giving customers entry to seamless Android updates – a useful software that limits how lengthy your cellphone is out of motion once you improve its OS.

At its latest Samsung Unpacked 2023 occasion the corporate unveiled its new smartphone lineup: the Samsung Galaxy S23, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus, and the top-of-the-line Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely. All three telephones function a brand new customized Qualcomm Snapdragon eight Gen 2 chip and upgraded 12MP selfie cameras – with the Extremely taking its important snapper to a whopping 200MP. 

However as noticed by Android Police (opens in new tab), regardless of these upgrades the smartphones aren’t but supporting one in every of Android’s most helpful options: seamless updates.

Sometimes, upgrading a tool is one thing of a nuisance. It’s a must to sit looking at a progress bar display screen – its different options rendered inaccessible and unusable – with solely the meter’s sluggish actions and textual content updates on the obtain’s progress to entertain you.

The seamless updates function goals to dispose of most of this boring downtime. Whenever you wish to replace your cellphone, the seamless updates software permits it to nearly cut up itself in two; one partition stays energetic and usable on the outdated OS permitting you to entry your cellphone’s apps as regular, and the opposite partition is up to date to the brand new OS. 

When the set up course of is full, your system can un-partition itself and cargo you onto the brand new OS – there’s nonetheless a slight delay at this step, but it surely’s a lot shorter and so much much less impactful than not utilizing seamless updates.

Sadly, it seems like (not less than for now) Samsung will proceed to shun this nifty software in favor of slower updates. 

Time for an replace

In our hands-on Samsung Galaxy S23 assessment and our hands-on Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely assessment, we’ve discovered lots of causes to be impressed with each smartphones. 

The shortage of seamless updates is unlikely to be a deal-breaker for most individuals – it’s only a disgrace that Samsung is holding its units again on this means. Certain, the software has its downsides since you want to have the ability to successfully set up two working techniques without delay and it reduces your cellphone’s accessible storage. However with the S23 Plus and Extremely dropping their 128GB base mannequin in favor of 256GB they possible have the house to spare.

We’ll have to attend and see if Samsung points an replace to alter the S23 line’s help for seamless updates however that appears unlikely. Provided that this isn’t the primary time it is snubbed the function we wouldn’t be shocked if it was lacking from subsequent 12 months’s Galaxy S24 telephones, too.