Is Samsung intentionally making your phone slow?

According to Twitter user Garyon Han Samsung deliberately restricts users’ Galaxy phones to reduce performance.

Samsung created an app called GOS and used the app to limit game performance, making the gaming experience worse. However, as discovered by the Korean community today, Samsung confirmed that it has set performance limits on more than 10,000 apps… pic.twitter.com/U58AreZZoo

– 가련 가련 (GaryeonHan) March 2, 2022

It doesn’t matter if a Samsung phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor or one of Samsung’s own Exynos chipsets behind the screen. Instead, it is claimed that it is Samsung’s Game Optimization Service (GOS), which will make the mobile phone run faster when playing games on mobile, which is the culprit.

After complaints from Lots of Korean users GaryeonHan put together a list of up to 10,000 apps (The list can be downloaded here) which runs very slowly, and is about more than just games. Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, and even many of Samsung’s own apps – such as Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass – are affected by the slowdown.

Of course, none of the major benchmark apps (such as 3DMark, Antutu, PCMark, GFXBench, and Geekbench 5, which Ljud & Bild also use for mobile performance testing) are affected by the software-based speed limit.

Obviously, it is the official name of a particular application that determines whether the GOS throttle is activated or not. A Korean YouTuber named Square Dream went so far as to change 3DMark’s name to Genshin Impact (found in the throttled app list) and then ran the same benchmark test on his mobile phone before and after the name change.

The image below shows that throttling had a significant impact on the outcome. (The full video, in Korean, is at the bottom of the article.)

Samsung has not yet commented on these allegations, but according to the Korean Naver . Internet platform Samsung should be in full swing to prepare an official response to the criticism.