No
and there is no reason that this is not possible, other than rather odd “security” arguments of companies. So blame your company.
to me its annoying to read other opinions and still both are here and belong here. You have to stand opinions that dont match yours as I have to stand opinions that dont match mine.
Have you tried talking to them? This does not make much sense - at least not for security. The important part are the security updates. And those are still being provided for the previous Android release on FP5.
Have you checked if your cut off access is not due to such an update being missing on your device? The latest one should be this one here from a month ago.
The part in question can be read as that the situation is seen as annoying, not primarily any differing opinions about it.
Does take a bit of edge away from the discussion, but doesn’t take away anything from that you are right, of course.
I have the latest security patch, and have told work security that.
Still doesn’t tell me when the OS 16 upgrade might be available.
Did they tell you why they want to see Android ≥16 and are not happy with the latest security patch? Is it because their scripts are not clever enough to check that and instead take the Android version?
With what we know so far it looks a bit like unqualified arbitrariness, but maybe your security department has a better qualified reason. From what I see, Android 15 should still have ~1.5 years of support ahead of it (extrapolated from here), so we’re still in the beginning of the second half of its life cycle. At the same time, because of the expected end of support in spring 2028 you can expect an update to some higher Android version before that and a delivery of security patches for your well-supported Android 15 until then.
We don’t know as fellow users. My gut instinct would be not to expect it before 2027. I might be wrong of course. You may contact the Fairphone using the official channels.
Thank you. That gives at least a better shape on what to expect.
From my own experience, that there is a valid reason or not is not the crucial point. What matters the most is to be able to use a device respecting the company policy.
And at least in my case, they refused to change their positions even after proving them wrong.
Yes, but it’s still worth a shot.
If they insist on some nonsensical requirements regarding the OS, you can hardly blame the Fairphone for that.
I can understand him. I would really love to use phone as desktop pc which pixel9 allows. Basically, you can connect phone to dock with keyboard, mouse and monitor and experience is something between chromebook and windows experience (although still slightly limited). I have fairphone my self, and I am slightly annoyed that I cant do that properly where as my mothers pixel 9 has been able to do that for a year. I really think that mode is going to be take over at some point, especially if ram prices continue to rise. A lot of people only need good browser, document writing experience for which that is perfectly fine.
I seldom use the desktop mode on my FP5 but with current Android 15 I am able to add the dock, keyboard, mouse and monitor, as you said…
some forum discussions on this
I understand that this mode gets improved with Android 16 but it is already operational now.
You can already manually get Android 16 for FP5 via the links here Android 16 /e/OS release! - #2 by urs_lesse
On Device Selector | /e/OS documentation I see that the official /e/os-build for Fairphone 5 is still based on Android 15 (today, 9th of november 2026 14:50)