This 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy phone still gets monthly Android security updates

• Samsung has rolled out a new monthly security update for the Galaxy Note 9.
• The 4-year-old smartphone's Verizon variant has received the March 2022 security patch.
• It's surprising to see the device still getting updates after it was removed from Samsung's monthly update cycle last year.

It looks like the device is still getting monthly security patches even though it was demoted to a quarterly update schedule last year.

The 4-year-old phone should have received security updates every three months since then, but it wasn't. The change was first spotted by Droid Life.

A closer look at the software update page shows that the device has received security updates before. In January and February, the phone received security patches, as well as January and February 2022.

The build number for the most recent update is QP1A.190711.020.N960USQS9FVC5 but it is only for the Galaxy Note 9. It is likely that other versions will get the same patch level soon.

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The latest release does not seem to have any significant improvements.

Even if it doesn't have to, it still deserves a pat on the back for continuing to push monthly updates for one of its best phones.