HThere are simple solutions that, once present, become essential, and in this case, Samsung seems to have settled the chair with this news. So much so, and I think I speak for all other brand smartphone users, here we have an example that other manufacturers should consider and apply, as I’m sure the vast majority of users (if not all, actually) would like to have something like this .

And it is because What is Samsung Maintenance Mode? To explain this, the best thing is to put yourself in a situation: on a bad day (because a day when something like this happens is by definition bad) your smartphone falls to the ground and the screen breaks, or you find that the speaker does. doesn’t work, or the battery life starts to measure in minutes instead of hours… in short, you’ll know what I mean by the day it’s time to take it to a tech service to fix the problem.

Although official technical services can at least in principle provide more security, given the price and speed, in many cases we resort to unofficial services. And be that as it may, in an official center located in a place with avant-garde design or in a neighborhood technical service, modest but generally cheap and reliable, there is a moment that always causes some displeasure: handing over our smartphone, unlocked, to a stranger. And I do not doubt the complete professionalism of 99% of professionals, but there is always a black sheep in everything.

A somewhat drastic method is to back up and factory reset the device before handing it over, but there are several cases where this is not possibleand there are also quite a few users who would not know how to deal with it, so in the end, in many cases, everything we save on the device remains for a few hours or days in the hands of a complete stranger.

Maintenance Mode, announced today by Samsung for global deployment, offers us a solution because it offers a way to all major smartphone functions will be accessible, but not user content, settings, etc.. That way, when the user activates maintenance mode, they get access to a new user account on the device that they can only exit if they want to.

Thus, when the technician is left “alone” with the device, he will be able to access its configuration, make adjustments and checks, etc., but since the user’s data is linked exclusively to his account, he will not be able to access it. .. To ensure the safety of this function, the system is based on Samsung KNOXan already veteran set of security technologies from the Korean brand.

The bad news is that the scope of maintenance mode is part of One UI 5, so its scope in terms of different devices will be limited. However, Samsung warns against this the deployment that began today will continue throughout 2023and this availability will be extended to other Galaxy devices.