Samsung similar to OnePlus is restricting 10.000 Android apps on Galaxy smartphones
Over the last several years, our smartphones have gotten immensely powerful, to the point that we’re not always making full use of their raw processing power in day-to-day use. Samsung, on the other hand, appears to have slowed the performance of thousands of applications in the pretext of increasing gaming performance.
Samsung Restricting Apps
The Game Optimizing Service software is pre-loaded as a system app on Samsung phones, and we confirmed that it’s installed on the Galaxy S22+. It can’t be turned off. The app’s actual function isn’t explained very clearly anywhere, although its name suggests it’s used to increase game performance.
However, as one Twitter user points out, Samsung appears to be utilizing this software to “optimize” the performance of thousands of non-gaming apps, as seen by a lengthy thread from disgruntled Samsung Galaxy owners in Korea. The performance of an app in the Game Optimizing Service list is limited, as proved by a YouTuber who modified the package name of the 3DMark benchmark program to mislead Samsung’s software into restricting it, and the results are very striking.
Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, and even certain Google applications such as apps that share SMS backups are among the most popular apps on the list. Samsung also integrated several of its own applications, including Pay and Secure Folder. The Game Optimizing Service app looks to affect about 10,000 programs in total, however, this does not include benchmarking apps like 3DMark, GeekBench, and others.
Wrapping Up
The reason for this isn’t stated explicitly, but it’s safe to presume it has something to do with battery life optimization. Limiting the performance of an app that does not use the full CPU or GPU capability of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or other processors would result in longer battery life. When OnePlus was found doing the same thing last year, it offered that reason while promising to make the practice optional in future upgrades. Samsung has yet to respond to these revelations.
