Got strange Find My Mobile notification on your Galaxy phone? You're not alone

Terminal updated: Feb 20th, 2020 at 19:37 UTC+01:00

Update: It has now been confirmed that the notification was the result of an internal examination past Samsung and at that place is nothing to exist worried nearly. More than details here.

Original story follows

Samsung put Galaxy telephone owners around the world into a frenzy a couple of hours back by sending out a strange notification to users via its Find My Mobile service. Find My Mobile comes preloaded on all Samsung smartphones and allows users to locate, unlock, or wipe their phone remotely, and earlier today, owners of various Milky way smartphones — anybody here at SamMobile included — were greeted with a notification that simply says "1" a couple of times and does nothing when tapped.

Getting a random notification from the service that allows you lot remote access to your phone tin be scary, but it seems information technology was a fluke rather than a malicious endeavour by a third party. According to a Samsung Care ambassador, the notification was a exam from Samsung to check if the Find My Mobile service is working properly and the visitor volition presently be making an official argument on the matter. Why Samsung couldn't make the notification itself say that it is a test is anyone's judge, though it's possible information technology was washed in a hurry past an overeager employee from the Observe My Mobile team.

How to temporary disable Detect My Mobile if you're worried

If you are concerned that the notification wasn't sent by Samsung, y'all can temporarily disable the Find My Mobile feature on your Galaxy telephone. To practice that, open the Settings app, navigate to Biometrics and security,and turn off the characteristic by tapping the toggle next to it. You tin enable the characteristic again once Samsung confirms that there is cypher to be worried almost. We've reached out to the company for a comment and will update this article as presently as it gets back to us and/or once it makes an official argument.

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