One month later, the 2026 Razr is already letting me down

https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-razr-2026-one-month-later-disappointing-why-3677169/

Publish Date: 2026-06-26 05:37:00

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority

I was excited for Motorola’s 2026 Razr lineup. I’ve had the 2023 Razr Plus for a few years now, and there’s a lot about it I love. Naturally, the 2026 series caught my attention.

I’ve had the base 2026 Razr for a while, and while there’s still a lot about it that I like, there’s one thing letting it down, and that’s the software. I know — having issues with Motorola software is far from a hot take these days, but even so, I’d hoped for better.

Have you been satisfied with Motorola’s software support?

2 votes

Yes

50%

I don’t own a Motorola

50%

Motorola’s software support is a joke compared to what everyone else offers, and the entire 2026 Razr lineup, excluding the Fold, will only get three years of Android updates. If I bought a Razr Ultra for $1,500, I wouldn’t be very happy.

But that lackluster support window is only a part of the problem. What I find infuriating is the quality of the software updates the phones do get.

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority

Last year, Motorola’s Android 15 update made many of its phones unusable until at least two more software updates — as was the case with my 2023 Razr Plus. Even when the show-stopping bugs were sorted out, plenty of smaller bugs still slipped through.

In the image above, you can see that the date and weather information on the cover screen is cut off. This isn’t a visual anomaly from the camera I used to take the photo — this is a visual bug that has plagued newer Razr models for over a year, and Motorola’s Android 16 update still didn’t address it.

Even though the phones launched in May, my base 2026 Razr and my Razr Fold came with the March security patch and didn’t get an update until midway through June. That update is itself already out of date, bringing the phones to the May security patch they should have launched with, and it hasn’t even fixed the issue on the cover screen. That’s another frustrating thing about Motorola’s software…

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