Samsung may be throttling apps to save battery life on Galaxy phones

Samsung is looking into reports that it has been limiting the performance of a large number of apps on some Galaxy smartphones, Android Authority has reported. It has reportedly been using something called the Game Optimizing Service (GOS) to throttle up to 10,000 apps (likely to save battery life), including many that have nothing to do with gaming like Netflix, TikTok and Microsoft Office. Making the optics worse is the fact that it's not throttling benchmark apps like 3DMark, GeekBench 5 and ...