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.

All was fine until a few months ago, around August-September. This app and the watch just don't work well anymore. I had a Samsung Note 5 and the watch wouldn't connect to it. When it did, the watch face would turn blank and nothing would work. When I switched to motoz3, the watch worked better than before but it doesn't show the right time. Seriously, what's the point if a watch doesn't show the right time??

A decent app most of the time. I would expect it to be much cleaner and smoother coming from a tech giant like Samsung. A5 least it gets the job done most of the time. However, my biggest problem is that when it updates, I get a notification access error. When I go in to fix it, then ALL my notifications go away for other apps. This is the fourth time this year! I have to manually restart my phone from scratch in order to get everything to work again.

What’s new

- Fixed the error.