JoeAverage64 is it an requirement to have the last Android 16 build (2026061600) on the phone before updating to Android 17 ?
It is arguably a best practice, but in the past it has not been a requirement.
In theory moving from the second-most-recent release to the most-recent is a smaller download, so two back-to-back updates can be cheaper than a single two-step uodate, but in this case A17 will probably be a full-size download regardless.