Korean authorities may open an investigation into Galaxy S22 GOS throttling.
, which is only supposed to be activated during gaming sessions to prevent overheating issues but has been found to be limiting the performance of commonly used non-gaming apps as well. Some disgruntled owners are planning to sue the South Korean giant for this and it may also have to answer to Korean authorities.
GOS is not a new app but what's behind the uproar is that with the One UI 4.0 update, Samsung made it impossible for customers to disable it. GOS was said to be meddling with over 10,000 apps, more than 6,800 of which were apparently non-gaming apps such as YouTube and Microsoft Office. What's worse, benchmarking apps which are used to test the processors and graphic systems in a device were not impacted by GOS and may have been overestimating the real performance of Samsung's phones by a wide margin.
Samsung has denied that GOS impacted non-gaming apps as well and has promised an update that will let users toggle the service off. This was not enough to appease everyone. Earlier, benchmarking platform