Samsung TV auto firmware updates: How to turn them on or off

Samsung TV software updates are starting to feel a lot like phone firmware releases. Samsung now rolls out one major Tizen OS version per year and supports modern TVs with seven years of updates. Not to mention that Tizen OS for TVs also gets a refreshed One UI layer.

Still, Samsung TVs aren’t completely caught up. The Tizen 9 update rolled out slower than promised for older models, and some users reported bugs when it did debut last year.

A glitch here and there is inevitable, but you could argue that the stability of TV firmware updates matters more. TV bugs can potentially have graver consequences than phone bugs. For one, TVs aren’t portable, and replacing or servicing one is far harder than swapping a Galaxy phone.

As a Samsung TV user, you can choose to be an early adopter of updates or play it safer and wait for the community to test them first. Either way, you’ll need to know how auto Samsung TV updates work and how to enable or disable them.

Press the Settings button on your Samsung TV remote and navigate to:

All settings > Support > Software update > Auto update ON/OFF (switch)

Of course, even with auto firmware updates turned off, you can still check for new software versions manually on your Samsung TV by tapping the Update now button in the Software update menu.

Currently, Samsung continues to roll out the Tizen 9 update to select 2023 and 2024 models. Tizen 10 debuts with the 2026 Samsung TV lineup and will eventually be rolled out as a firmware update for older TV models.