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Samsung launches SmartThings Family Care to help caregivers manage their loved ones’ regular responsibilities
As the aging population is increasing rapidly, so are the caregiving roles. It’s impressive that most of the individuals have stepped towards helping their loved ones with their regular basic needs.
Considering that, Samsung is enthusiastically building new opportunities to significantly help adults manage their caregiving loads for their loved ones, as the brand just launched SmartThings Family Care service in the US.
Beginning on August 16th, 2024, an all-new Samsung SmartThings Family Care service will be available in the US, especially modified for the aging population, to help those individuals who are in need of better assistance and guidance in their loved ones’ regular activities.
This latest service will significantly utilize the SmartThings platform along with smart home devices that will certainly offer individuals their loved ones’ schedule management, live activity notifications, medicine reminders, and location-based care.
For tackling the struggles that the caregiving role offers, the SmartThings Family Care service provides peace of mind by providing alerts to the caregiver if any abnormality is detected within their loved ones’ daily routines, allowing them to set reminders regarding their loved ones’ daily medications, location-based notifications when their loved ones arrive or leave a place, and also by setting up automations to help caregivers turn off appliances when no one is home.
Moreover, Samsung has made a great move by launching the SmartThings family care service. With the integration of advanced AI technology, the caregiving population will have smarter, more intuitive solutions, along with ensuring a healthy and safe life for both the caregivers and their elder loved ones.
On that note, the new Samsung SmartThings Family Care service can be downloaded from the SmartThings app under the Life tab.
Samsung carefully rolls out new updates for its Galaxy devices to introduce new features and changes. To do that, the company doesn’t depend solely on major software updates; it also brings changes with new app updates. For example, now, Theme Park is getting a new update.
Good Lock Theme Park update
Samsung has rolled out a new update for Theme Park with the version number 1.1.00.21. With the latest update, the company has brought some changes, such as a new function to customize app icons.
Users will get new customization features to decorate the device with the latest updates. Along with this, the latest update also brings some internal changes to enhance the working of the functionalities for the users. So, if you have any issues while using the application, you should check for the latest update.
To install the latest update, you just need to go to the Galaxy store and search for Theme Park; if a new update is available, tap the update button. In case you don’t receive any update on your device, you can also check the update from the external sources
Apps
Samsung collaborates with KISA to bring “Malicios message Blocking function” for Galaxy smartphones
Samsung is constantly working to make the Galaxy smartphone ecosystem safe; now, with the latest development, the company is working with the Korean Internet and Security Agency (KISA) to provide a new malicious message blocking feature.” or Malware Protection feature.
Samsung Message gets Malware Protection feature
In details, the’malicious message blocking feature” is applied to the message app in the upcoming update from the Galaxy store. However, it is worth noticing that the feature is officially arriving limited to South Korea. the feature will be available for the Galaxy smartphones that are working on One UI 6.1 or higher.
The collaboration between Samsung and KISA isn’t new; both companies have shaken hands back in October to develop the malicious message block feature. According to KISA, there are 1.5 million daily spams reported, which also send dangerous links, so on the basis of this analysis, both companies have developed the feature.
The latest security feature is already tested on some smartphones earlier this year to verify the function and complete optimization. Now the company has started rolling out the feature through new message app update
Samsung internet is an important application in the Galaxy ecosystem, as it provides the users several utility feature to browse the internet with full safety and quickly without worrying about any data breach. Now, to make sure it brings the same safety, the company has rolled out the Android 15 or OneUI 7 supported application.
Samsung internet browser (One UI 7) is future-ready
Google has recently launched the AOSP version of Android 15, which is limitedly available for smartphone manufacturers, and the Korean giant is taking advantage of it and started rolling out the future-ready Browser application for the android devices.
The latest update for the Samsung Internet Browser is coming with version 27.0.0.57. With the latest update, the company hasn’t brought any changelog but as per the information, it is supported for Android 15 and comes with a software package of approximately 150 MB. It is worth noticing that the latest update of the application supports Android 9 ownwards
How to install the Samsung Internet update
Samsung Internet is not limited to the Samsung ecosystem, so if you are using the same specification devices, you can download the update from the Google Play store. Meanwhile, the Galaxy users can also update the application from the Galaxy store as well. However, it may take time to arrive for the devices, as Samsung may release it vastly with One UI 7