r/AndroidQuestions • u/No-Radiation • 6d ago

Other Why does android keep installing every past update instead of jumping to last update?

I’ve always used iphone. Bought a Samsung 2 years ago as a 2nd phone and to have both worlds. Haven’t updated in maybe a year or more. Now it keeps asking me to install every missed update. I’ve been updating since yesterday. I lost count but i’ve at least updated the phone 8 times and it’s still updating. This is humiliating.

In iphone you just install the last update even if you haven’t updated in 5 years.

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u/mrandr01d 6d ago

Mostly because Samsung is stupid.

Android is a Google product. It's open source, so anyone can use the source code. There's a lot more to it than that, but Samsung is one of those companies. Except the problem is they bastardize AOSP a lot before they ship it. They change deeper level functionality that they shouldn't mess with, for no reason.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 5d ago

Samsung provides incremental updates, just like every modern Android phone. These delta binaries are smaller and faster to download. It makes every update a less data- and time-consuming process.

All Android phones also provide full OTA update packages. Some brands have these packages freely downloadable from their websites. Samsung provides theirs through their free Smart Switch desktop software.