What is Samsung Free and why is it on my Galaxy device?

A lot of users tend to question the reason why it's on their device in the first place. They'd also just rather have a way to get rid of it.

What is Samsung Free?

Samsung Free is a content aggregator service that provides access to news articles, live TV, podcasts and interactive games in one place. The content is made available free of charge to users. Samsung Free can be accessed by swiping left on the Home screen.

It has three tabs in which the content is sorted – Watch, Read and Play. Samsung Free actually replaces the Samsung Daily feed that used to reside in the leftmost Home screen on Galaxy devices. Samsung Daily had replaced Bixby Home in 2019.

Samsung Free has gone another transformation since then, albeit in some markets. It was replaced with the Samsung News app in the United States back in 2023 and later expanded to Canada. In April 2025, Samsung News also replaced Free in the UK.

It takes the offerings one step further by providing users with personalized news from top international and local publishers, including The Standard, Sky News, Business Insider, Reuters, and more.

You might be wondering why is it on your Galaxy device? Samsung confirmed in October 2021 that it would discontinue Samsung Daily. It also confirmed that the aforementioned service will be replaced with Samsung Free. The company said that the new service would provide more content and easy navigation.

Samsung Free is installed by default on all Samsung phones that come with Android 11 out of the box or were updated to this firmware. The app requires Android 11 and One UI 3. Since it's a stock app, there's actually no way to delete Samsung Free from your device.

You can disable it, though. Here's a detailed tutorial on how you can get rid of Samsung Free.