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Samsung removed the cleaning app that sent usage data to China on its system

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It happened earlier this year. Samsung was accused of sending user information to servers built in China, and the brand quickly went out of its way to explain the exact situation. Everything it was about Qihoo 360 operations, an app (or, rather, a series of libraries), among other things, to clean the internal storage of your phones properly.

Samsung explains that the Qihoo 360 app has established links with its servers in China but just decide how the phone storage will be upgraded I was using the tool mentioned. QiHoo 360 was responsible for identifying which files on the phone could be marked as "trash" so that Samsung could delete them later. But now, this app has been removed from company phones.

Greetings Qihoo 360 and its libraries

Before and after Qihoo 360 on device storage Before and after Qihoo 360 in Samsung storage

The app has disappeared with version 11.0.02.42 for "Device Care", which Samsung phones in Spain are called "Device Care". In previous versions, when you accessed clean the internal storage of Samsung mobile appeared on the "Release" button It was running clean with auto.

It was this cleanup that used the Qihoo 360 libraries, and as a result connected to its servers, telling the phone what could be deleted and what not automatically. Now the button has disappeared and according to Reddit, Libraries are also out of the system. So we are not talking about the disabilities of its operations but about being completely removed.

So, and until further approval, there will be no clever cleaning service for the device, unless Samsung develops its own that fulfills the same functionality as the Qihoo 360 service when it integrated its system. Of course, we can still move documents to videos or audio files manually. In addition to this change, the new "Device Care" brings more to work and improve beauty, in addition to getting better acquainted with Android 10.

Via | Android police

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