Samsung News to shut down in South Korea and India
The service’s widgets and home-screen media page will also stop working on December 21, 2026. A US shutdown has not been confirmed.
Samsung is notifying Galaxy users in South Korea and India that it will discontinue Samsung News on December 21, 2026. The shutdown will also disable the service’s widgets and the media page displayed alongside the phone’s home screen.
The notices have so far been reported only in those two countries. Engadget said Samsung had not responded to its question about whether the service would also close for American users.
The decision follows an update announced a few months earlier that added short videos from publishers including ABC News and USA Today. Samsung says preferences saved in News will not transfer to other aggregators, including Google Discover, which is already enabled by default in the latest One UI versions.
Samsung’s news service has operated under several names. It began as Bixby Home in 2017, was renamed Samsung Daily in 2019 and became Samsung Free a year later. The Samsung News version launched in 2023.
