System Recovery options deleted

[WILLIAM_W]

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?

[Big-Bad-Brad]

Welcome to the club.

[WILLIAM_W]

Happened to you too?

[Big-Bad-Brad]

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.

[WILLIAM_W]

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

[JoeB47]

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

[CEParsons]

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.

[WILLIAM_W]

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

[CEParsons]

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.

[gazza]

@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.