It’s possible that the unremovable software on your Samsung Galaxy S22 is limiting the functionality of some applications.
A pre-installed and always-on piece of software called Games Optimization Service, or GOS, has been demonstrated in many pieces of evidence to degrade the performance of some Galaxy S22 devices under certain situations. When you open up one of the thousands of games that have been discovered by the programme, this activates.
However, not all of the GOS applications are games; the list also includes Microsoft Word, Instagram, TikTok, Netflix, and Samsung Pay (as uploaded by Twitter user Garyeon Han). While Geekbench and 3DMark aren’t included, they’ll still utilise the phone’s chipset’s full potential even if they’re disabled.
Simply changing the app names reveals this. Genshin Impact, a popular mobile game, has a noticeable influence on the findings of 3DMark, as YouTuber Square Dream demonstrated. There is no evidence that changing the name of a benchmarking or other programme to the name of a game leads in a performance boost.
However, it doesn’t seem to be available on all Galaxy S22 devices. My Galaxy S22 Plus review unit, for example, does not have this feature available to it.
According to Korean forum Clién, this slowing may also be detected on earlier Samsung phones, such as the Galaxy S10 from 2019. According to the thread’s findings, though, the impact on performance isn’t as severe.
This is being investigated by Samsung, according to a Naver post by leaker Yeux1122. Perhaps this is as significant a threat to consumers’ safety as the Galaxy Note 7 or the original Galaxy Fold’s manufacturing defects. We’ve contacted Samsung to check whether this is the case, and will update this post if we hear back.
In order to maintain a reasonable battery life and prevent the smartphone from overheating, certain performance throttling on phones is unavoidable. This selective approach, while maintaining benchmark scores as high as possible, is unjust to those who don’t get the processing power they paid for. Although OnePlus has since made performance limiting an optional feature, this is exactly what happened last year.
Despite the slowing, we still prefer the Galaxy S22 Plus and S22 Ultra. The S22 family’s camera quality, software, and the S22 Ultra’s new S Pen capabilities more than make up for the phone’s artificially constrained performance. Source