Samsung has begun rolling out a new Device Care feature to Galaxy phones that automatically identifies and silences apps sending notification-based advertisements, addressing one of the more persistent friction points in the Android user experience.
The feature, which surfaced following a recent Device Care update through the Galaxy Store, places affected apps into deep sleep rather than simply muting their notifications. That prevents those apps from running background processes while their alert privileges remain suspended.
Two blocking tiers give owners control over how aggressively the system intervenes, with a basic option drawing on Samsung’s own dataset to block flagged apps whenever they appear on a device, while an intelligent mode analyses notification behaviour in real time before determining whether an app crosses the threshold for excessive advertising.
Apps that the system places into deep sleep remain accessible to users who want to review them, with Samsung routing the full list through Settings, then Device Care, then Care report, and finally Excessive alerts, a path that keeps the process transparent without requiring manual notification management from the owner.
The rollout status remains unclear; the feature has been present on the Galaxy S26 for several months, but has not yet appeared on all devices running One UI 8.0, suggesting Samsung may be staging wider availability through the One UI 8.5 update currently rolling out to older devices.
That staged approach is consistent with how Samsung has handled similar Device Care additions in recent update cycles, typically seeding features through flagship hardware before extending them to the broader Galaxy range via subsequent software releases.
The broader significance of the feature sits within a growing push across both major mobile platforms to give users more granular control over notification sources, with Apple having introduced similar classification tools in iOS in recent years and Android itself adding notification permission prompts at the OS level from Android 13 onwards.
Samsung has not confirmed a timeline for when the feature will reach all eligible Galaxy devices.
