The beloved Galaxy Note 8 has reached end-of-life status



  • There will be no more Samsung Galaxy Note 8 updates going forward.
    Samsung rolled out its last security patch to the phone in August 2021.
    The phone received a total of four years of updates.



Pour one out for the . Samsung has officially removed the device from its , signaling that it will no longer receive software updates.


The last security patch for the Galaxy Note 8 rolled out in . Less than a year before that, Samsung moved the Note 8 from monthly security patches to quarterly patches. We knew the device would only remain on the quarterly updates list for about a year, so this should hardly come as a surprise to those who closely follow Samsung’s update schedule. And if you’re curious, the last major software update the device received was Android 9 Pie, which rolled out back .