Samsung might be making your Galaxy S22 run far slower than it should

Date:
Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:40:47 +0000

Description:
Samsung is reportedly throttling thousands of apps and games on the Galaxy
S22 range.

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The Samsung Galaxy S22 and its siblings are among the most powerful phones on Earth, but they might not always seem like it, and theres a reason for that Samsung is reportedly throttling around 10,000 apps and games.

This problem was reported by Twitter user @GaryeonHan and numerous South Korean users, who compiled a list of affected apps, and report that the issue is seemingly caused by performance limits put in place by Samsungs Game Optimizing Service.

Yet its not just games that are affected, with Netflix, TikTok, Google Keep, Instagram, and many other apps also on the list. Samsung created an app
called GOS and used the app to limit game performance, making the gaming experience worse. However, according to what the Korean community found out today, Samsung confirmed that it has put performance limits on more than 10,000 apps... pic.twitter.com/U58AreZZoo March 2, 2022 See more

The Game Optimizing Service seemingly does this to preserve battery life, but it cant be disabled, and sneakily it doesnt affect benchmarking apps so theyll report higher performance than youre actually likely to get.

Demonstrating this, a South Korean YouTuber changed the name of the 3DMark benchmarking app to Genshin Impact (a game which is throttled) and saw the
app report scores and frame rates that were over 50% lower than when it was named 3DMark. So in other words Samsungs aggressive throttling could see performance drop by 50% or more in affected apps.

According to a leaker going by the name Lanzuk and posting on a South Korean blogging platform, Samsung is now investigating this issue. Of course its
hard to believe that the company didnt know this was happening, but perhaps this means some changes will be made soon.

For what its worth, this problem may not be affecting your Galaxy S22, as Android Authority reports to not be able to find the Game Optimizing Service on their handsets. On the flipside though, the issue might also affect older Samsung phones, as our Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra does have it. Analysis: not the first case of smartphone throttling

While this is a very bad look for Samsung, this isnt the first company to
have been caught slowing phones down.

Apple was caught doing something very similar not so long ago, but in Apples case it only throttled old handsets with aging batteries, not brand new flagships.

OnePlus though did almost exactly the same thing as Samsung throttling numerous apps , but conveniently not benchmarking ones. And it did this on
the OnePlus 9 series when they were brand new phones. OnePlus has since added the ability to opt out of this, so hopefully Samsung will follow suit. Sign
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