If you have an oldLG phonelying around, you might want to boot it up again and update it soon before you can no longer do so.
LGhas announcedthat it will be shutting down its smartphone update servers on June 19, 2025 (viaAndroid Headlines). After this date, any user with an LG smartphone will no longer be able to update it. The services affected by this closure are LG’s Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) upgrade service, its Update Center app, and the LG Bridge PC service tool.
Depending on the age of your LG phone, it’s possible that anAndroid updatecould be available for it. Although LG hasn’t released any updates in quite some time, or since the announcement of this shutdown.
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This news comes as no surprise, given that LG decided back in 2021 tostop making smartphonesand exit the market altogether. Shortly afterward, it began transitioning its smartphone manufacturing to home appliances instead. The last smartphone released by LG was theLG Wing 5G, launched in October 2020, which featured a unique swivel display that could be rotated to form a T-shape, revealing another display underneath.
Other notable releases in 2020 from LG include theLG V60 ThinQ 5G, which has a detachable screen and supports 8K video recording, and theLG Stylo 6, which has a more traditional smartphone design and includes a stylus. Unfortunately, LG’s phone business never reached the heights achieved by Samsung and Apple.
To LG’s credit, I always found its designs to be innovative and outside the box. I have fond memories of using theLG G4back in the day, which came out in 2015. It launched with Android 5.1 and featured a beautiful 5.5-inch 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution IPS display. It also had a sleek leather back cover, which definitely made it stand out against all the iPhone and Samsung smartphones available at that time.
LG’s smartphone update servers are shutting down on July 21, 2025, at midnight. This time is actually in Korean Standard Time, so in the US, the servers will go down on June 29 at 10:00 AM EST and 7:00 AM PST.
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