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Samsung‘s May 2023 update is now available for more Galaxy smartphones in the US. The Galaxy S22 series and Galaxy Z Flip 5G are widely picking up the latest security patch stateside, while the Galaxy S21 FE has joined the party too. The company has already pushed the May SMR (Security Maintenance Release) to most of its recent flagship models globally.
The Galaxy S22 series began receiving the May update in the US last week. Samsung initially updated the factory-unlocked variants of the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra stateside. Today, the company has released the May SMR for their carrier-locked counterparts. These phones are picking up the update with the firmware build number S90*USQS2CWE1 or S90*USQS2CWE2 depending on your carrier.
Like the unlocked units, the carrier-locked Galaxy S22 phones are also only getting the latest security fixes with this update. Samsung isn’t pushing anything else here. Perhaps there may not be many new feature additions to these phones in the coming months. The company would keep most big features for Android 14, which should arrive later this year along with One UI 6.0.
That said, the May SMR does contain plenty of security fixes. We are talking about more than 70 fixes, some of which are critical ones. These patches are now available to unlocked Galaxy Z Flip 5G users as well. Samsung is rolling out the update with the build number F707U1UES4HWE1 (via). The carrier-locked variants of the original 5G-enabled Flip phone received this update a few days back. And we repeat ourselves, the device isn’t getting anything notable apart from the latest security fixes.
The Galaxy S21 FE is also getting the May update in the US
Earlier today, Samsung released the May update for the Galaxy S21 FE in Europe. It followed the limited initial rollout in Latin America last week. The company has wasted no time to bring the May SMR the US-bound Galaxy S21 FE. As of this writing, the update appears limited to carrier-locked units on Comcast’s network. But it should just be a matter of time before Samsung covers units on other networks and expand the release to unlocked devices. The new firmware version for carrier-locked units is G990USQS6EWD8.
If you’re using any of these Galaxy smartphones in the US and haven’t yet received Samsung’s May update, you can manually check for it from the Settings app. Go to the Software update menu and tap on Download and install to see if you have a pending OTA (over the air) release. If not, wait a few days and check again. You may also get a notification when the OTA release hits your Galaxy device.