The Asus ZenFone Max (M2) was originally released with Android Oreo, however, the Taiwanese company promised to provide an Android Pie update shortly after the release. The rollout of Android Pie started back in the last month, however, its availability was limited to India. Now the company is expanding the rollout.
From today all the units of the smartphone 2018 with the ZB633KL moniker will be eligible for the Android 9 Pie update. Since Asus ZenFone Max (M2) comes with a vanilla Android Experience, you can expect all the goodies that are present in smartphones with Android One. That includes the Adaptive Battery feature, New User UI, New Settings Menu, More control over notifications, Digital Wellbeing and Gestures.
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The new update comes with version number 16.2018.1905.42 and bumps up the Android security patch level on the smartphone to May 2019. Since this update is being rolled out in batches it may take several days to reach all the smartphones. If you’re impatient you can try to force check the update manually by heading over to the Settings > System > System updates menu.
The original ZenFone Max came right on the moment when Android One smartphones were turning popular among customers. Asus’ ZenUI was considered too fancy and full of bloatware, apparently, the popularity of these midrange smartphones with vanilla Android, made the Taiwanese firm to rethink their strategy, leading to the release of the Asus ZenFone 6 with a clean firmware.
