[anybody8824]

Aside from the physical repair requirements, part of the same legislation also covers operating system updates for *smartphones* (see Annex II (EU) 2023/1670).

From 20 June 2025, de jure all smartphones sold in the EU must come with at least *five years* of updates.

Also the security updates must be made available to users within four months of them being fixed by the upstream project:

>security updates or corrective updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj

[beeboobaa3]

Wonder how that'll have to work for those who root their phones. I know samsung refuses to update rooted phones and has made it difficult to acquire the firmware files to manually update.

[NekkoDroid]

Well, if they don't find a way to fulfill the new obligation with their current policies, their policies will need to change to be able to fulfill their new obligation.

[kyriakos]

will that be 5 years from date of sale (like a warranty) or date of manufacture or date of first release? it makes a big difference since you could buy last year's model and expect 5 years of updates.

[anybody8824]

"from the date of end of placement on the market to at least 5 years after that date"

IANAL but my interpretation of rule is: if you buy from a first-party seller, you should receive an update for at least five years, starting on the day you bought the device.

[hurrdurr57]

Realistically, I think it would have to be from the release date.