Gear S Plugin

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About this app

This application is a component for Samsung Gear Application.
Samsung Gear Application has to be installed in advance.

※ Please allow the permission of Samsung Gear Manager from Android Settings to use it completely in Android 6.0.
Settings > Apps > Gear Plugin > Permissions

※ Access rights 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]
- Location: Used to search for nearby devices for Gear through Bluetooth
- Storage: Used to transmit and receive the stored files with Gear
- Telephone: Used to check device-unique identification information for updating apps and installing plug-in apps
- Contacts: Used to provide services that need to be linked with accounts using registered Samsung account information
- Calendar : Used to synchronize schedule with Gear
- SMS : Used to synchronize SMS with Gear
- Call logs : Used to synchronize Call logs with Gear

[Optional permissions]
- Camera : Used to scan the QR code to activate Gear's SIM card(eSIM Support Model only)

Ratings and reviews

As other users are quick to point out, this app is draining the battery of my phone, the problem is that it requires permanent location access even when the app isn't running or it won't run at all. This is a very poorly designed app that is requiring users to always give them location access when it clearly doesn't need it. Change the app to allow access only when running and I'll change my review.

PLEASE UPDATE THIS PLUGIN ALREADY. It's been MONTHS since I've been able to use my Gear S3 because of its incompatability with Android 10. Whenever I connect my watch, there's a constant file transfer that never finishes. This ends up draining my battery in 2 hours and leaves the watch vulnerable to an attack. Then when I try to adjust the settings, the app crashes. I can't even open the Galaxy Watch app.

I don't know if it's the full Gear app or the plugin for it keeps erasing my credit card data on an average of 3x's on a monthly on my Samsung Pay extension! It always seem to catch me off guard when I'm about to make a purchase using my Samsung Pay via Samsung Gear 2 watch that I've lost all my credit card info! It's really, really getting old re-entering my credit card info and going thru the verification process 3-4 times a month! And, it's not even during an update!

What’s new

- Fixed the error.