Android 15 isn’t worth it: Android 16 is coming much sooner than expected

This year Google did things differently. This not only delayed the release of Android 15, but also pushed forward the release of the current Pixels. For the first time, the company announced hardware without corresponding new software, which still, 51 years after the official introduction of the Pixel 9, still has not appeared. Now, to top it all off, the leak claims that Android 16 will arrive much earlier than expected.

From then on it was Mishaal Rahman. Android authorityperson responsible for revealing the expected launch date of Android 16. According to him, this new operating system will be officially announced in second quarter 2025. That is, Google will move the date between 3 and 6 months.

Cause? Google would be shape change develop its operating system, motivating the creation of a new model based on trunks. So this new method will allow different teams working on a single unified Android branchbut now they do this in different projects for each version. Moreover, this change will also motivate acceleration of release dates.

In fact, Rahman discovered in the Android 15 CDD (Compatibility Determination Document) that one of the requirements of the next OS is launch in the second quarter of 2025. Moreover, the code contains several texts left by Google developers and which also refer to the second quarter of next year.

This is one of the most important changes to the operating system, as you’ll have to go back to Android 1.5 Cupcake in 2009 or Android 2.2 Froyo in 2010 to find launch in the second quarter.

Android 16 will leave Android 15 as Lightning OS

Let Android 16 be out a few months ahead this is not bad news. This also doesn’t mean that this will happen every year, it just means that Google has decided to make a major change to the date and there is an operating system that will have to be sacrificed. In this case it is Android 15.

It is not officially released yet and there are more than 15 days left before it reaches Google Pixel, so if Android 16 is released in Q2 2025, There are many users who have not received the fifteenth version yet. But the fact is that the OS is installed on large G terminals on the same day of their launch, but for mobile phones from other manufacturers this is radically different.

If you have Xiaomi, Samsung or Oppo, it may take few months to get Android 15you may have even seen the official announcement of Android 16, but still haven’t officially updated to the previous system. As we say, this is a difficult situation, but it has to happen when the date is expected to change in such a radical way for the coming years.

However, we recommend that you take this information with a grain of salt because even though it is based on actual documentation from Google itself, everything may change with the release of Android 16.