I discovered new feature on my old S9+ 😂

[Sonora]

 

[arianwen27 · Accepted solution]

Yes, that system is added by Google Play system updates. Meaning any phone running Android 10 or newer still gets updates from Google.

Android phones have normal system updates and Google Play system updates. Normal updates are by Samsung, Google updates are by Google, and continue to work after a device manufacturer stops software support.

[redsunset2022]

Thank you for flagging this up.
I don't think it was very well publicised. I heard about it about two weeks ago on the ITV Martin Lewis Money Show. Needless to say, all the Android devices in our house now have this activated!

[Sonora]

I know, I have the latest version of Google Play System on my S9+, but it doesn't show up in the settings because Samsung stopped supporting the S9 series two years ago. Date of Google Play System is still January 2023, but in Apps I can see that I have latest version for my S9+.

 Samsung once updated all its phones, no matter how old they were, because they were all affected by a major security risk, and many were still in use. So my S5 mini received an extraordinary update, if I remember correctly, in 2019.

[rileylovetech]

Haha

[Vetri]

hmm...will my S6 get the same feature? 😋

[Sonora]

Of course, if you convert this 6 into 9 in S6 😋

Now I'm going to backup photos from my S24 ultra to my S21 ultra, losing 10+ years of Google Maps Timelines has warned me that Google could easily "lose" my backup of photos just like it deleted my Timelines. 😣🧐🥴

[Vetri · Accepted solution]

What? I kept getting warnings about my timelines I just ignored it as usual lol. When I bought my first camera few years back I deleted a weird looking file from the SD card via my PC only to lose 1000s of photos 😭😭 Maybe I need to find someone like you to bring those memories back to life through AI sketch 😁

[Sonora]

I got an email from Google saying that maybe my timeline was deleted because they were having some issues, and even though I had a backup of my timeline, almost everything is gone and I can't get it back. I'm not the only one, reddit is flooded with posts about deleting timelines and it seems that those who followed Google's advice and downloaded the data are affected, and Google somehow deleted the data from their phones too. 🤪

[Vetri]

I would be gutted to lose all my timelines.