Is the Samsung Galaxy A20s still supported?
End-of-support date: October 2022.
Support ended
Our estimateOctober 2022
Source: Samsung's official policy · verified 2026-06-12
What it means now that support ends
- 🔓 Security risk grows monthly. New vulnerabilities are discovered constantly; on an unsupported phone they are never fixed. Banking, payments, email, and password apps become progressively riskier.
- 📱 Apps drop off. Developers raise their minimum OS requirements over time — first you lose updates to apps, then the apps themselves.
- 💸 Resale value falls fast.The market prices support: once a phone leaves a manufacturer's update list, its used value drops sharply and keeps falling.
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More questions about the Galaxy A20s
How long will the Galaxy A20s get updates?
Support is over. The A20s received roughly two OS upgrades and about three years of security patches, which ended around late 2022.
Does the Galaxy A20s have an AMOLED display?
No. Unlike the standard A20, the A20s uses a PLS LCD panel, so colors and contrast are more muted.
Can the Galaxy A20s still run modern apps?
Some basic apps still work, but the older Snapdragon 450 and 3GB of RAM make it slow, and many newer apps now require a more recent Android version.
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Data sources & last verified: this phone's support window comes from documented update history (estimate — see our methodology), last verified 2026-06-12. How we compute end dates.