Although Samsung smartphones have Google Play, your devices also contain the Galaxy StoreSamsung’s own app store, which, among other things, allows you to update part of the system apps. Of course, this means that its use can be quite frequent, even more so if users decide to convert this official software repository to one of their usual channels for installing software on their devices.

As with devices from many other brands (except Apple, of course, for obvious reasons), It is quite common to not need to use a user account perform the most common tasks. Yes, it is usually recommended to the user and in certain cases serves to provide a more complete user experience, but since many people do not want to provide “extra” information, manufacturers have historically backed off at this point, allowing anonymous use, that is, that it is not linked to a user account.

But the Korean tech company’s policy seems to be very close to changing in this regard. And as we read in 9to5Google, Samsung will make it mandatory to have a user account to update apps from the Galaxy Store. And while it’s all based on information that hasn’t been officially confirmed at the moment (although it does come from the company’s own software), it looks like this change in Samsung’s policy will go into effect, at least in the United States, next year. September 25th.

This change may seem trivial, but it actually falls into it a strategy that the company started some time agowith which it aims to get more users of its devices to take the step of creating a Samsung account, which gradually connects to other own products and services, although so far we have not seen any further movement in this regard. the depth of the present, which tells us that this goal is to be increasingly a priority for Korean society.

It is also important to note that this change in Galaxy Store policyIt will also affect apps that are already installed and that until now they could be updated without having to log into the store. And so while waiting to see how it will be deployed and which geographies it will reach (since it may not be applied globally at the same time), it is likely that many users will find it unpleasant. that is, directly when trying to update apps installed from the Samsung store.