Currently, you can add a digital key for a smart lock to your Samsung wallet and open that to access the lock’s control from your phone. With this new function, you won’t need to unlock your phone or access the wallet to control the door; just tap your phone or smartwatch on the lock, and it will open.

If you have an older Samsung Galaxy smartphone, you may want to hold off on the latest software update. 9to5Google reported that the update that has been rolling out from Samsung over the past few days is bricking devices from the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 series of phones.

It's a problem that may be familiar to some Galaxy S10 owners. Samsung also released an update that broke the phone back in 2019 where users were asked to enter a PIN even though they never made one. Entering any PIN would cause the phone to reboot and ask for the PIN again. Similarly, the only fix was a factory reset.

Even as Samsung flagship devices fly from shelves, there’s bad news coming for million of Galaxy owners who have paid significantly more than $1000 for a latest, greatest smartphone. And with the launches of Apple’s iPhone 16 and Google’s Pixel 9, there’s little room for mistakes with competition fiercer than we’ve seen before.

Samsung's One UI 7 OS won't arrive until the Galaxy S25. Is ambitious software pushing us back to the dark days of sluggish updates?

YouTube Shorts are getting longer, Tesla’s fifth Cybertruck recall is due to a rear-view camera glitch, Texas is suing TikTok for allegedly violating its new child privacy law.

Just a week ago, there was speculation that Samsung’s One UI 7 Beta—its Android 15 preview—was imminent, albeit it’s already later than expected with SDC kicking off this week. But the company has now burst that bubble,