Samsung Reportedly Throttling 10 000 Popular Android Apps

Samsung has been found throttling and limiting the performance of over 10,000 popular Android apps on its Galaxy smartphones. These include third-party apps like those from Google as well as Samsung’s system apps like Samsung Pay, Bixby, Secure Folder, and such. Let’s take a close look at the details below.

According to users on the South Korean tech forum Meeco, Samsung has been using a system app called Game Optimization Service (GOS) to throttle popular Android apps like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and many others.

This was tested by a Korean YouTuber and the results might shock you! In the test, the YouTuber changed the entire package name of the 3DMark benchmarking app to Genshin Impact, which is one of the apps on Samsung’s throttling list. Then he performed a test using the real version of the 3DMark app and the “fake” version of the app separately.