Is the Samsung Galaxy F12 still supported?
End-of-support date: April 2025.
Support ended
Official promiseApril 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 F12
How long will the Galaxy F12 get updates?
Support has effectively ended. The F12 received two OS upgrades (to Android 13) and roughly four years of security patches from its April 2021 launch, putting it past its support window now.
What Android version did the Galaxy F12 launch with?
It shipped with Android 11 and One UI Core 3.1, later updating to Android 12 and finally Android 13.
Does the Galaxy F12 charge fast?
No. It supports only 15W charging over an older microUSB port, so topping up its large 6000mAh battery is slow.
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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.