However, EU regulation introduced in June 2025 requires that all smartphones sold on the European market receive software updates for a long time. The directive does not specify a minimum price for this rule to take effect. The EU explicitly states that software updates must be available for five years after a device is no longer sold.
Motorola’s lawyers have apparently studied that legal text closely, and now the company appears to be ready to confront the EU Commission. Their interpretation is that the EU does not actually require updates to be provided at all, but only requires that if updates are offered, they must be free of charge. However, we are not aware of any case in which a smartphone manufacturer has ever charged money for security patches.
I’ve seen the speculation that Motorola is one of the OEM under consideration by Graphene OS team for future device support. Motorola’s history of policies regarding security updates doesn’t really support that speculation tbf
If the EU fumbles this…
They wont. The EU went up against much larger fish for protecting the consumer rights.
Allowing this would automatically allow Apple and Google to do the same.
Currently receiving regular security updates.
Device released in December, 2025
Security patch updates will be discontinued in December, 2028
This is from the support page for Motorola G 2026. You can see it will receive security updates until 2028. The page lists android 17 as next OS update but no guarantee for android 18 and 19.
Note: Page was translated by firefox original page is in german language.
