Samsung Internet Browser Beta

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About this app

You can install Samsung Internet Beta along with the Samsung Internet stable version.

Samsung Internet provides the best web browsing experience for you with Video Assistant, Dark Mode, Customize menu, Extensions such as Translator, and by protecting your privacy with Secret mode, Smart Anti-Tracking and Smart Protection.

■ New Features for you
* Auto close unused tabs
You can enable the "Auto close unused tabs" feature in the Internet Settings menu to automatically close tabs that have not been used for a certain period of time. Organize unnecessary tabs effortlessly, and enjoy a neat and productive browsing experience.

* Newly updated "Grid" view mode for Tab Manager
For easier and more intuitive tab management, a multi-column layout has been applied to mobile devices. For easier tab navigation, tab scroll animations have been added.

■ Security & Privacy
Samsung Internet helps you protect your security and privacy while browsing the Internet.

* Smart Anti-Tracking
Intelligently identify domains which have cross-site tracking ability and block storage (cookie) access.

* Protected Browsing
We will warn you before you can view known malicious sites to prevent you from visiting web sites which may try to steal your data.

* Content Blockers
Samsung Internet for Android allows 3rd party apps to provide filters for content blocking, making browsing safer and more streamlined.

To improve usability, A/B testing may be conducted on Samsung Internet v21.0 or later.
Information collected through A/B testing is data that can determine the usage rate of features, excluding users’ personal information.

The following permissions are required for the app service.
For optional permissions, the default functionality of the service is turned on, but not allowed.

[Required permissions]
none

[Optional permissions]
Location: Used to provide location-based content requested by the user or location information requested by the webpage in use
Camera: Used to provide webpage shooting function and QR code shooting function
Microphone: Used to provide recording function on webpage
Phone: (Android 11) Requires access permission to check the mobile phone information in order to provide country-specific feature optimization
Nearby devices: (Android 12 or higher) To find and connect to nearby Bluetooth devices when requested by the website
Music and audio: (Android 13 or higher) To upload audio files on webpages
Photos and videos: (Android 13 or higher) To upload photos and videos on webpages
Files and media: (Android 12) To upload files stored in storage spaces on webpages
Storage: (Android 11 or lower) To upload files stored in storage spaces on webpages
Notifications: (Android 13 or higher) To display the download progress and website notifications

Ratings and reviews

You need to add an option on settings where the user can add their search engine of choice. I cannot use Startpage as my default search engine on this browser. Thus, I cannot use it. Which is a pity, because no other browser has a night mode as good as this one's (provided they even have one, which is pretty rare already) and the one handed UI is a long overdue essential addition to smartphones these days, which won't stop getting bigger year after year. TLDR: Custom search engine, please. You also have a very annoying notification button that partially covers the page. I find that button completely useless and unnecessary. What's the point of having it? You either enable or disable notifications once. Maybe later on, you decide to disable it. But it is not something that you are doing every single time you visit the webpage. Thus, having the button always there telling me that notifications are disabled for that page is pointless. You want a notification button, that's fine, but hide it somewhere instead of having it cover the content of the page I want to see.

I do love the browser as far as the interface, but some major battery draining .. like almost 24% my charge with total of 2 hours screen time, also seems much slower than original. i will give it another day or so, but most likely be switching back to original.Samsung browser never have had battery issues , and it's always been super fast. maybe you should upgrade the interface on the original browser

Okay I've figured out what the problem is when opening the app. if I have my S-PEN out, which is almost always, it tries to edit while the page isopening. This causes the whole page to freeze. Even if there's nothing to edit, the page freezes, I need to go to task manager, and select the internet and from there I can either go back to deselect editing or the page will work. The freezing is 100% an interaction between the S-PEN and Samsung internet.

What’s new

v29.0.1.12
* Fixed bugs and improved stability