Various problems listed below

[Android Central Question]

In gallery app all of my favorite pictures have disappeared.
When I turn on my flashlight it makes a chime noise, never did b4 today.
In my battery usage there is something called audio, & media never seen b4 today.
I only have factory installed apps on my phone.
2-4 wks ago, a system update was performed, even though I have that option turned off & since then I cant view my data usage.
My husband has same Samsung 7 phone & he has none of these issues.
What is going on with my phone ?? Please HELP!!

 

[Rukbat]

You can turn off app update but you can't turn off Android update, which is probably what happened (especially since you say it was a system update). (They're staged, to keep from overloading the server with millions of updates at once, so he may not have gotten his yet.

All the changes you're seeing appear to be from the new version of Android.

Sometimes we disagree with Google (or even Samsung, in your case) as to what constitutes an update and what we consider ruining a good thing that we have, but times change and we have to go along with the changes. (I'm 76, so it's probably more of a shock to me than it is to you. When I was a kid, TV wasn't commercial yet, just 2 experimental stations in NYC and a few engineers with receivers. Today we have instant world-wide voice and text in our pockets.)

You can look in Settings > About phone > Android version to see what the patch level date is. That would be the system update. (It could be a month or two old - it takes that long to send all the updates out to all the S7s that your carrier has registered.)