Samsung Flow

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About this app

Samsung Flow is a software product that enables a seamless, secure, connected experience across your devices. You can authenticate your tablet/PC with your smartphone, share content between devices, and sync notifications or view content from your smartphone on your tablet/PC. You can turn on the smartphone's Mobile hotspot to keep your tablet/PC connected.
You can also sign in to your tablet/PC using your biometric data (your iris or fingerprint) if you register with Samsung Pass.

The following devices support Samsung Flow:
1. Windows Tablet/PC: Windows 10 OS Creators update (V1703) and June patch build (15063.413)
(Galaxy TabPro S, Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book2, Galaxy Book S, PC)
2. Android Tablet: Android N OS or newer
3. Android Phone: Android N OS or Newer
It may not be supported by some models, depending on the smartphone specifications.

* Samsung Flow will operate only on official software released by Samsung Electronics.
* Windows: Bluetooth (Bluetooth LE optional) or Wi-Fi/LAN, Wi-Fi direct

Windows 10 users can find the Samsung Flow app on the Windows App Store.
Go to the Samsung Flow webpage where you can find the setup guide:
www.samsung.com/samsungflow
If you have not updated the Samsung Flow app to the latest version, please go to Windows Store > Menu > Downloads and Updates to update the app.

* You can no longer unlock your computer with Samsung Flow because the Windows policy has changed.

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
Nearby devices: Used to find nearby devices and track registered devices
Notifications: Used to show the connection status between your devices
Storage: Used to store content shared among registered devices on an external storage device and view the stored content (~Android 10)
Optional permissions
Phone: Used to answer and decline calls to your phone on your tablet or computer
Call logs: Used to read the contact information included in the event of the incoming call when receiving a call
Contacts: Used to obtain information about callers or senders when you receive calls or text messages on your phone
SMS: Used to receive and reply to text messages to your phone on your tablet or computer
Microphone: Used to record and send the audio from your phone to your computer or tablet while using Smart View
Location: Used to search for your phone using your tablet or computer connected through Bluetooth

Ratings and reviews

I just way to say how much I love Samsung phones. But... This app is really bad. Sidesync was way better. It was more beautiful and it worked. This app works when it wants to. It Connects to the phone whenever it wants. Most of the time it won't. Is it really that hard to add a button that will let you manually reconect your phone when the app decides it doesn't want to recognize that your trying to Connect to it? Most of the time I have to restart my computer just to get the app to realize that I'm trying to connect my phone. Also please black out the outside borders when in screen mirror mode. Noone wants to watch a mirrored video with a white glaring background. Samsung please fix this. I love you guys. I will not put up with medeocre apps like this though. If you can't make this work. go back to sidesync it was a wonderful app. At least it worked.

This app feels like a beta release. There is a lot of stutter and delays. Trying to use the phone screen mirror only works intermittently. It is a shame Samsung is discontinuing SideSync with this app. I was able to type this review using SideSync. Trying to type a message on flow would have never happened. Mouse and keyboard interaction is simply horrible. I will keep using SideSync until Flow gets better. Another suggestion, put an option to hide the border around the phone screen, it looks bad.

Works pretty well. I've tried Airdroid and I recall it being a bit faster. Airdroid's security vulnerability history leaves something to be desired. I'm also skeptical about the roustness of the security of the Windows unlock feature. I use it on an older media server PC without FDE, so security is irrelevant anyway if someone gets the physical hardware. Please add the ability to screen mirror/tether via USB-C cable. My phone is generally out charging anyway, might as well get faster mirroring.

What's new

Bug fixing and updates to some features