What everyone’s missing about Android upgrades in 2025 – Computerworld

Here in 2025, the level of nuance is only gonna grow greater. We’ve got Android 16 on the horizon with its extra-early Q2 timeline, then a second smaller Android update set for the fourth quarter of the year (which may or may not sport its own new number).

But that expanding framework aside, y’know all the smaller stuff we just went over? Yup — all of that is also still present and pertinent as ever: the in-between-update quarterly feature drops, the separate monthly security patches, and perhaps most important, all the ongoing week-to-week updates of system-level apps both front-facing and under-the-hood, all year long.

So, yeah: Android updates matter, all right. And with more of ’em slated to show up in the year ahead, that perspective is more important than ever to wrap your head around and remember — even if the Apple marketing machine will do everything in its power to downplay that reality and make you forget.