What is Samsung Push Service?

[AC Question]

What is Samsung Push Service and what does it do? My wife and I were wondering if we need it for our phones to work properly.

 

[nahoku]

It depends if you use any of Samsung's services...

Here's a cut and paste from the description on Playstore...

The Samsung push service provides the notification service only for Samsung services (Samsung Apps, Samsung Link, Samsung Wallet, Samsung Pay, etc.) on Samsung devices.

If you delete the Samsung push service, you may not receive the new notification messages.

The Samsung push service provides the below services.
- New message is displayed in the pop-up window
- Display a badge on the application icon for a new message
- Display new message on the notification bar

If you don't use any Samsung services, you should be safe to disable the app. I don't use any of their services so I disabled the app long ago. As expected, my phone runs fine with it turned off. You can also just disable it and if you find you need it later, then renable it.