The Sony Xperia 1 VI was announced in mid-May with a promise of three OS updates and four years of security patches (the phone itself came with Android 14, of course). Here comes the first of three OS updates.
The changelog is as terse as it gets: “Android 15 OS Upgrade” and a bump to the November 1 security patch. The software version is 69.1.A.2.78. You can see the update here on the Sony UK Support page, which also has a guide on how to install the update (it’s pretty much “tap update”).
Sony Xperia 1 VI receives Android 15 (69.1.A.2.78)
As the tipster that alerted us to this release notes, it is a 940MB update. That’s fairly small as these things go, there have been updates weighing in at nearly 3GB.
So, as far as we can tell, Sony didn’t change anything other than the OS itself, leaving its customizations as they were.
We had a look, but the last update for the Sony Xperia 10 VI is from October and keeps the phone at Android 14. The same is true for the Xperia 1 V and Xperia 5 V. The Xperia 1 IV reached the end of its support cycle with the Android 14 update. Speaking of October updates, the Xperia 1 VI received Wi-Fi 7 support last month.
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