A trio of Galaxy As phones are getting Android 12 with One UI 4.1. Additionally, the update contains the June security patch, which eliminates 65 vulnerabilities. The three phones are the Galaxy A21s and Galaxy A02s (both launched in 2020 with Android 10) and the Galaxy A03s (which launched last year with Android 11).
The update improves a number of Samsung apps. The Gallery, for example, improves the sorting of albums and offers an improved functionality for stories. There is also an automatic way to “remaster” old photos, plus any changes made can be easily undone. A nice privacy feature allows you to clear the time and location data from a photo before sharing it (useful for services that don’t do this automatically).
Another privacy-oriented feature comes from Android 12: indicators that show if the camera and microphone are in use. There are switches that allow you to disable them in the system (rather than per app).
There is a new search widget, which can launch the browser in stealth mode, which can block tracking if you have this option enabled. The Samsung keyboard now offers Grammarly-based language suggestions.
Samsung Galaxy A21 • Samsung Galaxy A02 • Samsung Galaxy A03
This update also renews Picture-in-Picture mode, Samsung widgets, Calendar app, Dark mode, and more. Note that A21 and A02 are receiving the full One UI 4.1 package, A03 are receiving One UI 4.1 Core.
Here are the firmware versions for the new update for each phone. Galaxy A21s users should be on the lookout for the version A217FXXU8DVF6A02s users for A025FXXU4CVF4 and A03s users for A037FXXU1BVFB. All three are in trial rollout, but are expected to expand to more countries soon.
Note that all three models are eligible for 4 years of security patches, but they were not on the list of phones that will receive 3 OS updates (and the A21s and A02s already have two).
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