topic Re: Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted in Galaxy S23

System Recovery options deleted

WILLIAM_W — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:18:29 GMT

My S23+ received an update yesterday. After it finished, I powered down then went to System Recovery menu to clear System cache. ALL of the menu items were GONE except 'Reboot' and 'Factory Reset' !!!

Anyone else experience this? How do you fix it without losing everything?

Re: System Recovery options deleted

Big-Bad-Brad — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:20:58 GMT

Welcome to the club.

Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

WILLIAM_W — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:21:38 GMT

Happened to you too?

Re: System Recovery options deleted

JoeB47 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:21:46 GMT

I updated my S24 Ultra phone this morning and find this same issue.

Re: Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

Big-Bad-Brad — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:26:44 GMT

Yeah. Samsung has taken that option out for some reason. At first I think it hit the newer phones and just spread to the 23's in the last few days. I'm gonna miss that one.

Re: Re: Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

WILLIAM_W — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:28:23 GMT

My Samsung phones have always had the menu. Nothing new at all.

Re: System Recovery options deleted

CEParsons — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:30:26 GMT

The wipe cache option is no longer necessary and has been removed.

Samsung is transitioning devices to Seamless updates. Device cache now clears automatically after updating, no user action required.

Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

WILLIAM_W — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:33:39 GMT

Doesn't speak to all the other repair options that are now missing.

Re: Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

CEParsons — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:25:41 GMT

It is all related.

It's my understanding that post-update, Samsung appears to have chosen to simplify the user experience, eliminate redundancy, and restrict unauthorized firmware flashing.

While the wipe cache option is likely deprecated and no longer necessary, the others still exist outside of the recovery menu.

If you need to use other options such as booting into safe mode, you can do that via the power menu, if you need to manually apply updates, you can connect to a PC using Smart switch, if you need to re-optimize apps you can use Good Guardians, so on and so forth.

Re: System Recovery options deleted

gazza — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:53:21 GMT

@CEParsons thanks for the clarification

however, clearing cache partition is also useful if one is potentially troubleshooting app misbehaviour or simply 'spring cleaning', if one has had a lot of app updates and is inbetween OS updates / patches.

Am still surprised and annoyed at the removal of a valid tool.

Re: Re: System Recovery options deleted

CEParsons — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:58:46 GMT

Individual app caches can still be cleared. Memory can still be cleaned in device care/Good Guardians. Apps can still be optimized in Good Guardians.

Device cache no longer needs to be manually cleared as the Android system now does it automatically. The tool is no longer useful because the function is deprecated. Android Runtime now does deeper cleaning in the background than manual cache wiping ever did.