Android 12 and 12L have obtained their final official Google safety replace

What it’s essential to know

• Google’s final official safety patch for Android 12 and Android 12L was the March 2025 replace.
• As of March 31, 2025, Google is now not supporting the Android 12 and 12L working methods.
• OEMs can nonetheless select to manually backport safety releases to their units; alternatively, customers can swap to a customized ROM.

Android 12 and Android 12L have formally reached end-of-life standing, and will not obtain any extra updates or safety patches from Google. The final official safety replace for Android 12 and 12L was the March 2025 launch, as units working these working methods didn’t obtain the newest April 2025 safety patch. Now, the corporate has confirmed that this is not a fluke, formally ending help for Android 12 and 12L as of March 31, 2025 (by way of Android Authority).

Google helps Android working methods for a few years after they’ve been changed. Usually, there’s a giant proportion of units nonetheless working older working methods, typically as a result of they can not be upgraded. On this occasion, Statcounter estimates that over 12% of Android units worldwide are nonetheless working both Android 12 or 12L.

These units have been receiving the newest patches from the Android Safety Bulletin by means of safety patch backports for years, however that help window has now come to an finish. That is typical for Google help, because it maintained present safety patches for greater than three years after Android 12 and 12L formally rolled out.

Regardless, help for Android 12 and 12L ending implies that older Android telephones will virtually definitely be caught on older safety patches, with out the newest fixes. The record of telephones now not supported now consists of the Samsung Galaxy S10 collection, the Google Pixel 3a collection, and the OnePlus 7 collection.