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Author: denisebmsft

defender-endpoint/android-whatsnew.md

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-ms.date: 02/04/2025
+ms.date: 02/28/2025
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 # What's new in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Android
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 Want to experience Microsoft Defender for Endpoint? [Sign up for a free trial.](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2225630&clcid=0x409&culture=en-us&country=us)
 
+#### Defender for Endpoint on Android now supports Android 10 as the minimum version
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+February 2025
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+**Defender for Endpoint is ending support for Android 8, 8.1, and 9 on April 30, 2025**. Moving forward, only devices running Android 10 and later are supported.
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+**How does this change affect your organization's users?**
+
+**New Users**: The application will no longer be available for new installations on devices running below Android 10. When users with Android versions below 10 attempt to download the Microsoft Defender app, Google Play store will notify them that the device is incompatible.
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+**Existing users**: The Microsoft Defender app continues to function for existing users on Android 8, 8.1, and 9 versions, but they don't receive updates from the Google Play store as they don't meet the minimum SDK version requirements. Therefore, any new updates on the app aren't available to users running an Android version prior to version 10.
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+After discontinuing support for deprecated versions, Microsoft no longer addresses bugs or provides maintenance for unsupported operating system versions. Any issues occurring on devices running Android version prior to version 10 won't be investigated.
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+This change is planned to go live on April 30, 2025. No explicit admin or end-user action is required.
+
 #### Microsoft Defender for Mobile: Open Wi-Fi Detection Update
 
 **February 2025:**
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 Based on our research insights and inputs from Microsoft and other SOC teams, we're implementing a caching behavior to ensure the value of the alerts remains and also doesn't cause fatigue to SOC teams due to sheer volume.
 
-**New behavior:** 
+**New behavior:**
 
 - Every time the end user connects to an open Wi-Fi network, an alert is raised.