Samsung Boost app

[Michael_Archangel]

Just had a message pop-up on my S22U saying "Samsung Boost" was a "recommended app" and it will be installed the next time I'm on Wifi. There was no option to refuse this recommendation and not install it, and no option to cancel the notification or remove "recommended apps" from the notifications. Yet I seem able to uninstall it? I don't really get what this app is for and why it's forced on us... Anybody else has had this? Can I safely uninstall it? And are other "recommended apps" likely to force install themselves in future?

 

[VidJunky]

Sounds fake to me. Samsung has a boost app but there's is called Galaxy App Booster and wouldn't show up in a pop-up ad.

Was this a toast notification? You should try to figure out which app is sending this so that it can be removed.

 

[mustang7757]

You use this app ?

 

[Michael_Archangel]

This was definitely a Samsung thing, I found a screenshot of it online, where it says Samsung Shop in that screenshot is where it said Samsung Boost for me:



In notifications, it said "Recommended Apps" and "Sytem UI", then "Recommended Apps" disappeared from the list of recent notifications.

From the Galaxy Store, I also download loads of app updates for Samsung apps that don't actually exist as apps listed on my phone. Like I had an update for an app called "Apps" and made by Samsung.

 

[mustang7757]

Go to play store and turn off auto update apps and any marketing uncheck or clear galaxy store data then force stop and turn auto update off and don't accept any marketing when prompted