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Jun 26, 2025
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what's up YouTube jeff back from Sammy
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Guru here and today another very
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exciting Samsung video for you guys
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Today we're going to be talking about
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Samsung News which is an application
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that if you use a Samsung phone you
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probably have installed unless you've
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well disabled it I guess but it does
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come preloaded and it will serve you up
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breaking news stories But Samsung
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recently changed their Samsung news
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notification policy to where it will
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push you updates on all these categories
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that you haven't opted in for And I
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started getting tons of push
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notifications up here in my notification
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shade for various polls and other stuff
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I don't remember opting in for And I
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found out why the other day I wanted to
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share it with you guys so you guys can
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turn this off if you've been having this
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problem Before we get started do want to
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Okay so let's talk about this story
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Basically what happened was I I started
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noticing about 3 or 4 days ago that
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Samsung News was sending me a whole
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bunch of notifications and I usually
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only get maybe like one or two a day cuz
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I only had opted in for breaking news
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stories Well I started digging into this
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and we can actually open up the
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application itself so I can show you
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guys what's going on here I went through
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and I was like why am I getting so many
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different notifications i'm just used to
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getting breaking news in the specific
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categories that I opted into So I went
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into the Samsung app uh for news and I
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went into notices and up here it says
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service push policy change notice This
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is on April 2nd but I don't think this
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policy actually started changing or
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being pushed to live users until maybe
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the 15th of April because that's when I
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started noticing it We know you like to
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keep up to date with what's happening in
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the US and around the world So our
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newest version of Samsung News version
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7.1 launching April 2025 will default
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opt in for certain push types if you
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gave us permission to send you any
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notifications in the beginning If you're
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a new user you'll be opted into
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pre-selected pushes if you activated
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Samsung News push notification
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permission at all which I personally
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think is very deceitful If you only
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opted in for one type of notifications
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just like breaking news why would you
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want to be opted in for things like all
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these other various categories which
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I'll show you guys in a second We even
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giving you your news your way so you can
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update your push enrollment at any time
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by visiting the settings page breaking
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news editors pics interactive content
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But the better way is actually to manage
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this using notification categories And
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I'll show you guys that in just a second
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And you can also give them feedback Now
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I did give them some feedback on this
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because like I said I think it's a
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little bit facitious to automatically
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opt people into all these categories
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they didn't manually opt in for if they
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just wanted breaking news But if you do
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want to change it it isn't really hard
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to do Just go back to the three dot menu
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go to settings You can choose from these
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You see you've got breaking news which
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is what I originally opted in for editor
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picks and interactive content You can
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turn all these off manually right there
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So for instance editor picks you know
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and interactive content would be the
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polls But you can also manage these a
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little bit more granularly if you go
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into notifications and notification
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categories However keep in mind as I've
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said many times on this channel that 1
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UI7 does not automatically turn on
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notification categories So you'll need
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to go to notifications advanced settings
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scroll down and then once you see
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notification categories right here
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manage notification categories turn this
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on It's turned off by default so you'll
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need to enable that first Once you
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enable that you can then go back to news
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notifications You'll find the
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notification category option Then you
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can granularly control all this various
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information Now one thing you'll notice
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is even if you turn off interactive
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content and editors pick it will still
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leave on some of these other categories
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that you might not want in notification
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categories like quick poll spotlight
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these various things like this I do like
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breaking news and I do like the daily
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briefings top stories for you But the
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quick polls and the spotlights they were
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getting a little bit too much They were
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sending me maybe six to eight push
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notifications a day in the last few days
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whereas I was only getting maybe two a
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day with breaking news or maybe my daily
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briefing morning and evening whatever
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But you can granularly control this
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You've got seven different categories
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here which is more than what you have
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baked into the regular news settings
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here Now again you can switch all of it
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off if you want You can disable the app
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entirely But if you like Samsung News
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but you've been seeing a lot more push
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notifications than you want here's why
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it's changed and what you can do about
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it Remember you can also manage your
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sources your topics etc down here I
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really wish Samsung would add us as a
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source but they have very limited
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sources unfortunately Um even for tech
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content which is unfortunate but it'd be
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nice if one day we could get in here
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They have like The Verge and some of the
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really big publications I'd love to see
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Sammy Grrew in there at some point but
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we are not available there just yet
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Anyway I wanted to share this with you
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guys because it was bothering me quite a
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bit I was wondering why this happened
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Samsung obviously changed their policy
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in my opinion Not super transparently
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They should have gave people the chance
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to opt in for this instead of just
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turning on all those categories and
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increasing the push notification volume
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right away Anyway let me know if you
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guys have experienced this Check out the
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appreciate you guys checking out the
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video and of course we'll see you in the
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next one Thanks so much for watching