Device Care

Device Care - optimize your Galaxy smartphone

Device Care - Optimize Your Galaxy Smartphone

"Device Care" is a user-friendly app by Samsung Electronics designed to optimize your Galaxy smartphone. It provides an overview of your device's health, analyzes battery usage, detects malware, and allows for efficient memory management, all in an intuitive interface for easy maintenance without expert knowledge.

App stats

Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-09-29)
Creation date: 2017-06-01
Permissions
Device & app history: retrieve running apps, read sensitive log data
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • Control displaying and hiding keyguard
  • delete other apps' caches
  • delete apps
  • interact across users
  • full license to interact across users
  • add or remove a device admin
  • manage users
  • reset system to factory defaults
  • update component usage statistics
  • retrieve running apps
  • force device reboot
  • modify secure system settings
  • read Home settings and shortcuts
  • view network connections
  • read battery statistics
  • delete all app cache data
  • measure app storage space
  • full network access
  • close other apps
  • control Near Field Communication
  • run at startup
  • draw over other apps
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • install shortcuts

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App summary

For a more pleasant experience while using your Galaxy smartphone, try the "Device Care" app by Samsung Electronics. With the "Device Care" app, anyone can easily keep their smartphone in good condition. The intuitive screen layout and interactions help the user check the condition of their device at a single glance and maintain their smartphone easily without expert knowledge, as it enables them to take prompt actions if problems, such as malware (viruses, spyware), arise.

Some Galaxy devices may not support some of the features outlined below.
App updates via the Google Play store are only available on some devices.

[Main features]
- Reports the current condition of a customer's smartphone on a 100-point scale;
- Optimizes a smartphone in one simple click;
- Analyzes battery usage on a per-app basis and saves battery power by checking unused apps via App power monitor;
- Identifies battery-draining apps;
- Provides Power saving mode and Maximum power saving mode to ensure that the user can enjoy their smartphone for an extended period of time;
- Manages and frees up Memory efficiently;
- Detects malware (viruses, spyware) and provides real-time protection for smartphones;
- Offers two widget types for customer convenience.


This app requires the following permissions:
You can still use the app's basic functions without allowing the optional permissions.

[Optional permissions]
• Notifications: Used to notify you about updates and events

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helps with phone optimization.
  • Provides system analysis features.
  • Easy one-click memory cleanup.
Cons
  • Issues with cleaning caches effectively.
  • Notifications are intrusive and cannot be easily managed.
  • Updates lead to performance degradation and bugs.
  • Deep sleep settings often ignore user preferences.
Most mentioned
  • Problems with app updates causing new issues.
  • Difficulty in clearing app caches and storage.
  • Annoying notifications related to app management.
  • Loss of useful features after updates.
User reviews
Device Care's updates generate notifications to check sleeping apps, only go away after restarting my phone. Anytime Google Play updates any app on my phone!! Also, after a Samsung Keyboard update I get notifications to select a default keyboard, and it's already set to Samsung Keyboard. See the pattern? I really do not like Samsung's apps or updates anymore. Oh, plus an app update broke WiFi Calling, and it took 3 months for another update to fix the previous update. Not a good track record.
by J M, 2024-10-31

It supposed to clean sweep your caches and says your phone is optimized but if I tap down on the memory the memory screen pops up with bunch apps are waiting to be cleared and have not been clean sweep. Sometimes I will do 2 or 3 times after manually do it and go back to main part of app and touch memory again and more other apps pop up to be cleaned. Alot of times I manually have to go thru and clear the caches myself.
by Victoria Harper, 2024-10-30

For something that is supposed to help my device performance, it sure as heck doesn't actually help anything. Like, you'd expect when you use it to "Clean storage," it'd clean every apps cache, but no, instead, you still have to go into every app on your phone and manually clear the cache, then go back into it to clear what you just did plus you could clean it four times and every time it'd clean the same four things which don't need to be cleaned since they are never used.
by D J, 2024-10-13
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