July 2025 Breaks a Decade of Monthly Android Patches

Google this week announced that no security patches have been released for Android, Pixel devices, and other Android-based platforms this month, ending a decade-long streak of security updates.

As customary in the first week of each month, security bulletins were published for the core Android operating system, as well as for Pixel devices, Android Automotive OS (AAOS), Wear OS, and Pixel Watch, but they all contain the same message: there are no security patches in the July 2025 bulletin.

This is the first month without security updates since Google started rolling out monthly Android fixes in August 2015, looking to make the mobile operating system safer for both users and vendors.

The lack of security patches for July 2025 does not mean that Android has reached perfection in terms of security, albeit Google has made significant efforts to reduce the incidence of vulnerabilities across the ecosystem and to reduce the ...