Asus was at the CES 2018 to announce the ZenFone Max Plus M1 smartphone for the U.S. market and it didn’t take the company long to release the first software update, which came out on the last day of January 2018.

Despite boasting some of the best features on smartphones today, among them a dual-lens camera and Face Unlock, the ZenFone Max Plus M1 debuted with Android Nougat out of the box. At the MWC 2018, Asus launched the ZenFone Max M1, which, unlike its counterpart, is powered by Oreo out of the box.

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Despite everything, we are hopeful that the Max Plus M1 will be upgraded to Oreo at some point, but until then, let’s find out what other updates have for the handset. In fact, this page brings you all the latest software updates for the ZenFone Max Plus M1 in one place, which makes it easy to track them.

Asus ZenFone Max Plus M1 Oreo update

Expected release date: Q2 2018

asus ZenFone max plus m1 update

Although the ZenFone Max M1 and Max Plus M1 literally share a name, the two are quite different. Nonetheless, we expect that Asus will update the latter’s software to match the former, probably during Q2 or maybe in Q3 2018.

Launch OS Current OS Android 8.0 Oreo
Android 7.0 Android 7.0 Expected in Q2/Q3

Asus ZenFone Max Plus M1 update table

Date Software version Android OS Changelog
12 March 2018 14.02.1802.49 Android 7.0 Improve the power consumption of video watching, Improve occasional navigation bar virtual keys disappear and Solved that Unable to create a name for the same picture library to delete folder after the folder.
31 Jan 2018 14.02.1801.38 Provide camera HDR and watermark function, Camera color temp improvement and Improve speech recognition function
NA Pre-installed build Android 7.0 NA

Small but important updates

Although we are hopeful that Asus will at some point update the ZenFone Max Plus to Android Oreo just like the ZenFone 3 and ZenFone 4, we still don’t know when exactly this will actually happen. Before then, you may have to get used to updates that are small in nature like the one rolling out right now.

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Asus says the update will be rolling out gradually and thus it’ll take some days before all Max Plus M1 handsets get it. While you can wait for the OTA notification to arrive, you can also try to force the update by heading to Settings > System > System updates.