Last summer, phone maker HTC raised eyebrows by announcing it would enable users to unlock the bootloaders on some of its most popular phones, enabling technically-inclined customers to root the ...

An Android Authority report detailed that Asus had seemingly removed the ability to unlock the bootloader on its Zenfone devices.

Xiaomi has made it more difficult to unlock the bootloader of its phones running HyperOS, requiring users to achieve level 5 on the Xiaomi community forum and limiting them to unlocking three ...

Xiaomi just introduced strict restrictions to unlocking the bootloader on its HyperOS-running phones, citing security and data protection. While MIUI devices offer some amount of flexibility in ...

ASUS is reportedly telling customers they can no longer unlock the bootloader on their phones, including the Zenfone 9 and Zenfone 10.

Android is known for being a far more customizable operating system than iOS, but some device makers are taking away a key customization option.

But if you decide to unlock your bootloader on Pixel 9, it may be at the expense of AI features. Some early Pixel 9 buyers on XDA forums quickly found (h/t Android Authority) that unlocking the ...

Samsung's Android 16-based One UI 8 update reportedly removes the option to unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy phones.

Samsung appears to have removed the OEM Unlocking option in One UI 8, disabling bootloader unlocking on more devices than before.

Apparently Samsung is blocking Bootloader Unlocking with the recent One UI 8 update. This will change things for custom development.