Is the Android 13 update available for your Samsung Galaxy? Here's how to check

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Android phone being used to take a selfie

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published 6 December 2022

Some of the very best Samsung Galaxy phones running Android are getting even better, with firms rolling out the Android 13 update to their supported devices. In the case of Samsung, that means tons of different models, variations and generations.

The combined Android 13 and One UI 5.0 update has been rolling out for some time now, and that means it should have reached pretty much every relatively recent Samsung smartphone.

We're grateful to the phone fans at SamMobile, who have been tracking the rollouts across the globe: their list of updated Samsung phones is very comprehensive and covers models you may not even have heard of.

Which Samsung phones have the Android 13 update?

All the best known models should be covered now, including the Samsung Galaxy S22, Samsung Galaxy S21 and Samsung Galaxy S20 series along with their many variants. Multiple versions of the Z Flip and Z Fold have been updated too, along with lots of A-series phones too. At the time of writing the list of phones includes:

Galaxy S22 (all models)
Galaxy S21 (all models)
Galaxy S20 (all models)
Galaxy Note 20/Note 20 Ultra
Galaxy A53 5G
Galaxy A33 5G
Galaxy Z Flip 4
Galaxy Z Fold 4
Galaxy A73 5G
Galaxy Tab S8
Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro
Galaxy M52 5G
Galaxy M32 5G
Galaxy Z Fold 3
Galaxy Z Flip 3
Galaxy A52
Galaxy S20 FE
Galaxy S21 FE
Galaxy Note 10 Lite
Galaxy Tab S7
Galaxy F62
Galaxy A71
Galaxy Z Fold 2
Galaxy Z Flip
Galaxy Z Flip 5G
Galaxy S10 Lite
Galaxy M53 5G
Galaxy A52s 5G
Galaxy M33 5G
Galaxy A52 5G
Galaxy M62
Galaxy A22 5G
Galaxy Quantum 2
Galaxy F42 5G
Galaxy M42 5G
Galaxy A51 5G
Galaxy Xcover 5

If your phone isn't in the list we'd recommend bookmarking Sammobile for the latest updates: they've been very good at staying on top of Samsung's massive rollout all over the world. And if your phone is in the list, you should be able to download it from your phone's Settings > Software Update.

Of course, it's not just Samsung Galaxy phones that are enjoying Android 13 goodness, but plenty of the best Android phones, too. So if you're in the market for an upgrade be sure to scope out the best phones running Android 13 today, such as the excellent Google Pixel 7 Pro.

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Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).