Separated Apps

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About this app

App information
Designed for enterprises that need to protect sensitive work data, Knox Separated Apps allows IT admins to separate third-party apps from corporate apps on fully managed devices.
“"IT admins use Separated Apps to isolate apps on managed devices. This app isn’t intended for personal use."

How it works
- After an enterprise IT admin installs work apps on fully managed devices through a UEM, they can enable Separated Apps and select certain apps to install in the secure, separate area.
- By default, the following apps are available in the Separated Apps area.
.Google Chrome
.Microsoft Office (depending on the device model)
.Samsung Calendar
.Samsung Camera
.Samsung Gallery
.Samsung MyFiles
.Samsung Video

For more details, see the Knox SDK documentation.

Ratings and reviews

This app is designed for business use, personal and proprietary data separate and secure. It's moot for personal use. Therefore it's the very definition of bloatware, using space that cannot even be disabled, much less uninstalled. Samsung is always heavy-handed with bloatware, but this is truly pointless. I've been a loyal Samsung customer for more than a decade. Phones and other electronics. But I'm ready to move on if they don't show more restraint on this kind of thing.

If you want results on issues like this, get the media involved. Start with local news outlets if you have to. Like most people on here, I stumbled on this while performing updates to my Galaxy S23 Ultra. This isn't something I was ever notified about and as soon as I saw it on the update list, I stopped it and unchecked the box for automatic updates for it. Seriously... someone needs to get media involved....

This is just providing a frontend to something Knox has been capable of for a long time. It's not bloatware or malware. I can understand that people who aren't interacting with it might not want to see it could take it as bloatware, but it's actually a security feature. It's a relatively small package, and you can hide it if you don't want to see it. As for those complaining about games installed during updates, those are from your carrier, not Samsung. Check the install source.