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Samsung Is Increasing Tactics for Bloatware on Galaxy Smartphone Users
Samsung usually offers tons of bloatware on Galaxy devices, whether they belong to the flagship, mid-range, or even affordable series, which undoubtedly creates a negative user experience and pushes users to create Samsung accounts.
More recently, Samsung’s new Galaxy smartphones, especially from the mid-range lineup, are getting overloaded with unnecessary third-party applications and pressure to create Samsung accounts, which creates a kind of inconvenience and makes the users’ experience worse.
Samsung has not made the Galaxy AI features available to mid-range Galaxy devices that supposedly require a Samsung account. The giants are still pushing users to create accounts despite the lack of clear benefits. On these smartphones, a Google account is just enough for the essential functionalities, for instance, the Play Store and basic security.
It appears that the Korean giants are playing unfairly as they push their security features on mid-range phones. Samsung pre-installs applications like McAfee antivirus, which is unnecessary as Google Play Protect already provides security. Samsung appears to be bullying or pressuring users to convince them that they need a Samsung account for the basic security features they already have.
The reports are also revealing that there are enough dialogues while setting up the new Galaxy device to recommend third-party apps to users. This is all because Samsung certainly collects a lot of advertising money. Samsung sells the new dialogs as a way to get suitable applications recommended.
Samsung organizes apps with “aggressive advertising” such as Temu and Candy Crush, probably due to ad revenue deals, although these pre-installed applications are not necessarily the ones users are looking for.
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).
Good Lock plays a key role in providing a platform for all the customizing applications or plugins of the Galaxy devices. For information, it provides several types of plugins like NavStar, QuickStar, LockStar, Camera Assistant, and many more. With these plugins, users can perform several customizations for the smartphone UI, including navigation bars, lock screens, home screens, notifications, and many more. To manage these plugins more conveniently, the company has started rolling out the update for Good Lock.
Good Lock is receiving a new update, version 2.2.04.95. With the latest update, the company has introduced some new changes that will fix the phenomenon of installation and deletion of modules, so users can easily manage them according to their requirements.
Along with this, the changelog also says to bring some fixes for the security-related functionalities, so if you are also having some issues while using any of the functions of Good Lock or want to get some performance enhancements, then you should go for the latest Good Lock update.
If you want to install the latest version of Good Lock, you can check its availability from the Galaxy Store. If it is available, tap on the update button, but if it isn’t available, you can also sideload the application through some external sources.
Google’s developers are releasing an update for its Android Auto app with great constancy. After providing stable version 11.8, there is a new beta ready to test.
Google released Android Auto 11.9 Beta Update
This new Android Auto 11.9 beta build landed online a few hours ago, allowing users to test its features before the public rollout begins.
The latest Android Auto 11.9 beta is ready to download for all users who have registered for it. However, the update rarely brings significant changes from the previous updates. The mMountainvViewgiant didn’t offer the changelogs for the Android Auto updates, so the only way to find out what’s new in version 11.9 is to install it on your device and look for changes.
In the previous Android Auto 11.8 update, the redesigned Settings menu began rolling out to users. Installing Android Auto 11.9 beta doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the new Settings interface today, but it is required once Google enables the server-side update on your device.
Keep in mind that Android Auto 11.9 is still in the beta stage. As a result, you may encounter bugs and issues after installing it. As a result, you might experience crashes or other issues while using this beta version.