Is the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G 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 S20 Ultra 5G
How long will the Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G get updates?
Its support has ended; it received three major Android upgrades and security patches through roughly early-to-mid 2025, and Samsung no longer updates it.
Is the Galaxy S20 Ultra's 100x zoom actually useful?
The 4x periscope and 108MP sensor give genuinely good zoom up to around 10x; the headline 100x 'Space Zoom' is mostly a gimmick with very soft results.
Should I buy a Galaxy S20 Ultra in 2026?
It's appealing as a cheap zoom-focused camera phone, but because it no longer gets security updates it's not the best choice as a primary, long-term device.
Safer alternatives
All three carry a GREEN Safe-to-Buy badge today.
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.