A buggy Samsung smart home update broke old Galaxy S10 phones, but there is a solution

A Samsung smart home software update released this week caused some Galaxy S10 and Note 10 (including e, Lite, Plus and 5G versions) and A90 and M51 smartphone users to enter an infinite boot loop, rendering their devices unusable. After some investigation, Reddit users narrowed it down to an update to the Samsung SmartThings framework app that was automatically applied to the devices.

Reddit posts show that Samsung has replaced the faulty update with a new version that won’t lock up five-year-old devices (the Galaxy S10 series was released in 2019). Still, some users recommend being cautious and turning off automatic updates anyway.