Users gear up to sue Samsung for alleged app throttling in Galaxy S22 series

Owners of the Galaxy S22 series, the latest smartphones by Samsung, are gearing up to sue the company for the models' built-in game optimising service, which allegedly limits the phone performance, legal sources said on Tuesday.

The Galaxy S22 series released last month came under intense scrutiny at home and abroad for their built-in game optimising service designed to optimise CPU and other performance to prevent overheating during gaming, reports Yonhap news agency. The service has been applied in other Samsung smartphone models as well, where it can be disabled or removed, but it became impossible to do so on the latest Galaxy S22 models that come with the One UI 4.0 update, triggering complaints that Samsung is trying to artificially limit the phone performance, such as the operation of smartphone apps.

According to legal sources, owners of the Galaxy S22 series have recently opened an internet community to bring together people in order to join a class action suit against Samsung.After hiring a lawyer, the owners plan to file the suit seeking $242.40 in compensation per person.