The Sony Xperia 1 VI was announced in mid-May with the promise of three OS updates and four years of security patches (of course the phone came with Android 14). Here comes the first of three OS updates.
The changelog is as brief as it gets: “Android 15 OS upgrade” and a glimpse of the November 1st security patch. The software version is 69.1.A.2.78. you can see the update Here Over on the Sony UK support page, which also has a guide on how to install the update (it’s pretty much a “tap update”).
Sony Xperia 1 VI receives Android 15 (69.1.A.2.78)
As the tipster alerted us in this release note, this is a 940MB update. Considering these things it’s quite small, about 3GB of updates.
So, as far as we can tell, Sony didn’t change anything except the OS, leaving its customizations as they were.
We checked, but the last update for the Sony Xperia 10 VI is from October and puts the phone on Android 14. The same is true for the Xperia 1V and Xperia 5V. The Xperia 1 IV has reached the end of its support cycle with the Android 14 update. Talking about the October update, the Xperia 1 VI got Wi-Fi 7 support last month.
