Samsung has addressed reviews that it’s throttling the efficiency of 1000’s of fashionable apps, saying a software program replace will return management to customers.

“We value the feedback we receive about our products and after careful consideration, we plan to roll out a software update soon so users can control the performance while running game apps,” stated Samsung spokesperson Kelly Yeo in an announcement to The Verge.

Samsung’s response follows reviews that its telephones are throttling the efficiency of round 10,000 apps, together with social media providers like Instagram and TikTok, in addition to video games like Genshin Impact. But the software program didn’t seem to have an effect on fashionable benchmarking apps like 3DMark, which suggests benchmarks might not precisely mirror the real-world efficiency of the telephones.

“Our priority is to deliver the best mobile experience for consumers, said Yeo. “The Game Optimizing Service (GOS) has been designed to help game apps achieve a [sic] great performance while managing device temperature effectively. GOS does not manage the performance of non-gaming apps.”

Samsung Korea had beforehand posted an announcement in its Samsung Members app, which was translated into English by Twitter user Dohyun Kim. Samsung confirmed that the discover was genuine to The Verge.

An actual timeline for the rollout of the replace was not given and Samsung didn’t handle the dubiousness of fashionable benchmarking apps being excluded from throttling.

Another Android machine producer, OnePlus, was caught in an identical scenario final 12 months, which it defined as a approach of optimizing battery life on its telephones. Like Samsung, OnePlus later announced that it might be including an choice to let customers flip this optimization characteristic on and off.