Motorola’s excellent track record with updating devices fell by the wayside as it became part of Lenovo and started releasing more device variants than anyone can keep track of each year. Nothing is better proof of that than the Moto G4 Play’s situation. The device, which was released on September of 2016, has been stuck on Marshmallow 6.0.1 for months and months as owners gave up on even getting an update.
Verizon Moto G4 Play gets Android 7.1.1 Nougat after being stuck on 6.0.1 for a long time was written by the awesome team at Android Police.