Is the Samsung Galaxy A72 still supported?
End-of-support date: March 2025.
Support ended
Official promiseMarch 2025
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 A72
How long will the Galaxy A72 get updates?
Its support is already over. Samsung delivered three OS upgrades up to Android 14 and four years of security patches, which expired around March 2025.
Did the Galaxy A72 get Android 14?
Yes. Its final major update was Android 14 with One UI 6, pushed out in early 2024, after which it stopped getting feature upgrades.
Should I buy a Galaxy A72 in 2026?
Only as a cheap secondary device. With security patches finished, it is no longer a safe daily driver for sensitive accounts.
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Data sources & last verified: this phone's support window comes from the manufacturer's official policy, last verified 2026-06-12. How we compute end dates.