Samsung is throttling the performance of over 10,000 apps

Samsung is the latest smartphone vendor to be caught using a list of apps that the operating system throttles automatically — and benchmarking apps are not on the list.

Some of the affected devices in the Galaxy S21 lineup. Credit: Samsung

As reported by Android Authority, Korean Twitter users have compiled a list of 10,000 apps that are marked as subject to "performance limits" imposed by Samsung's Game Optimizing Service. Yet, despite being ostensibly related to games, the list of affected apps also includes Microsoft Office apps, Netflix, Google Keep, TikTok, among others.

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