Most recent Galaxy phones from Samsung have a program installed called Game Optimization Service (GOS). The name makes it sound like something that ups gaming performance, but it’s actually used to depress more than 10,000 apps including popular apps like Tiktok, Netflix, and Microsoft Office.
Discovered by Korean users on the Meeco forum, and reported by others XDA Developers.
The list also includes apps from Samsung itself, but there are no standard apps that get a free hold. A user who made the discovery in a Youtube clip showed just how much the impact of GOS could be, by changing the name of the 3D Mark benchmark test to “Genshin Impact”, one of the games that stifled its performance.
With the common name, the 3D Mark awards 2618 points in the Wild Life Extreme test. With the fake name, the score is instead 1,141 points – less than half the high performance.
Samsung acknowledges that GOS slows down CPU and CPU speeds, and says in a statement that the purpose of the software is to “improve CPU and CPU performance to avoid overheating during long gaming sessions.” The company promises an update that will make it possible to opt out of this “improvement”.
All this reminds us of the time when users discovered that Apple is throttling the processor speed in their iPhones with damaged batteries, the so-called “Batterygate” scandal.
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