Samsung News app discontinued 2026 is now on a fixed clock. Samsung said the service will end on December 21, 2026, at 00:00 UTC, and the app, widget, and leftmost home screen media page on Galaxy phones and tablets will disappear with it.
That shutdown also wipes user data, profiles, and personalization information after the service ends. For anyone who used the feed for daily news, sports scores, or stock updates, the change removes a built-in source rather than just a single screen.
Samsung News and the December cutoff
Asif Iqbal Shaik, Senior Editor at SamMobile, reported the notice after Samsung posted it inside the Samsung News app in India and South Korea. The timing is specific enough to matter because it sets a hard cutoff instead of a vague retirement window.
Samsung News launched in 2023. It replaced Samsung Free, which had taken over from Samsung Daily in late 2020, and Samsung Daily had itself replaced the original Bixby Home feed in October 2019 after Bixby Home launched in April 2017.
Galaxy users and the missing feed
The practical impact is straightforward for Galaxy users who rely on the leftmost home screen page. After the cutoff, the built-in news surface is gone, along with the widget that can pull that content onto the home screen.
That leaves users with no Samsung News content after the service ends, and the cleanup goes deeper than the interface. Samsung said the service will delete user data, profiles, and personalization information after shutdown, so any tailored feed setup tied to the service will not survive the cutoff.
India, South Korea, and the wider pattern
The notice appeared in India and South Korea, but the service is expected to be discontinued in other markets as well without separate official notices there. That is the complication in this story: the warning is localized, while the shutdown itself is broader than the two countries where the message has already surfaced.
Samsung has also recently announced the shutdown of Daily+ on its TVs and smart monitors. The pattern points to a company trimming overlapping services instead of carrying several similar feeds across devices, and the replacement for Samsung News has not been announced.
