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 contents 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 log in to your Tablet/PC with your biometric data (Iris, Fingerprints) 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.

* The PC unlock function is no longer provided 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

When it works, it's pretty good. Screen mirroring works well. But the fact that I have to unlock my phone and open the app every time to use it makes it much less than convenient. The fact that it doesn't allow me to initiate text messages from the PC side without unlocking the phone for screen mirroring is silly. The fact that sometimes it just doesn't connect despite jumping through all those hoops gives it ⭐⭐. If I'm going to do all that, I'll just continue to use scrcpy with a USB cable.

The app is okay, it does mirror you phone on your PC but there seems to be some major issues that have come up recently. Hopefully Samsung will provide an update with fixes. 1. When typing from your keyboard attached to the PC when running the program, anything on your phone duplicates letters. This is what happens when I type "phone" pppphhoooonnneee. 2. The copy and paste function between PC and phone and vice-versa doesn't work.

I could figure out how to use Sidesync, but this one is too complicated to me. I also learned from reading the reviews that this app does not support USB. That is one of the best options should be kept. My recommendation to Samsung app team: *dumb it down for the setup. *add the USB feature back. *allow reading history of the text most importantly, get the new build run by someone who is not tech savvy. keep in mind, not everyone has software background like you.

What's new

Bug fixing and Update of some features