Is the Samsung Galaxy S8+ still supported?
End-of-support date: April 2020.
Support ended
Our estimateApril 2020
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 S8+
How long will the Galaxy S8+ get updates?
The S8+ shipped on Android 7.0 and received about 2 OS upgrades (to Android 9 Pie) plus roughly 3 years of security patches, ending around 2020. It no longer receives updates.
What's the difference between the Galaxy S8 and S8+?
The S8+ has a larger 6.2-inch display (versus 5.8-inch), a bigger 3500mAh battery, and was offered with more RAM and storage, but otherwise shares the same chipset and cameras.
Is the Galaxy S8+ still good in 2026?
As hardware it remains pleasant to use, but security support ended in 2020, so it is best treated as a secondary or backup device rather than a primary phone.
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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.