Effortlessly control your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a wide array of SmartThings-compatible devices with the SmartThings app. This powerful tool allows you to seamlessly connect and manage your smart home ecosystem from one convenient platform.
SmartThings is designed to work with hundreds of smart home brands, ensuring you can control all your gadgets in one place, including your Samsung Smart TVs and smart appliances. Whether it's your Samsung smart TVs, smart appliances, smart speakers, or even devices from popular brands like Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue, SmartThings brings everything together under one roof.
With SmartThings, managing your smart home becomes quicker and easier. You can connect multiple devices, monitor their status, and control them with just a few taps. Plus, you can enhance your experience by using voice commands with assistants like Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant.
Key Features
- Control and monitor your home from anywhere in the world.
- Create routines that automatically adjust based on time, weather, or device status, ensuring your home runs smoothly behind the scenes.
- Share control by granting access to other users.
- Stay informed with automatic notifications about your devices' status.
※ SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones. Some features may be limited when used with other vendors' smartphones.
※ Availability of some features may vary by country.
※ SmartThings is also available on Wear OS-based watches, providing quick access to routines and device control via the SmartThings tile on your watch. SmartThings complications on your watch face offer direct entry into the app's services.
App Requirements
Please note that some mobile devices may not be supported. The app requires a minimum of 2GB RAM and supports screen mirroring through Galaxy's Smart View.
App Permissions
The following permissions are required for the app. Optional permissions can be declined, but this may limit some functionalities:
Optional Access Permissions
- Location: Used to locate devices, create location-based routines, and scan for nearby devices using Wi-Fi.
- Nearby Devices: (Android 12 and above) Used to scan for nearby devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
- Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Used to provide notifications about SmartThings devices and features.
- Camera: Used to scan QR codes for easy addition of members and devices to SmartThings.
- Microphone: Used to add certain devices to SmartThings using high-frequency sounds.
- Storage: (Android 9-11) Used to save data and share content.
- Files and Media: (Android 12) Used to save data and share content.
- Photos and Videos: (Android 13 and above) Used to play photos and videos on SmartThings devices.
- Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Used to play sound and video on SmartThings devices.
- Phone: (Android 9) Used to make calls on smart speakers and show information about people sharing content with you.
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) Used to make calls on smart speakers.
- Contacts: (Android 9) Used to get phone numbers of your contacts to send text message notifications and show names of people who send content to your devices.
- Contacts: (Android 10 and above) Used to get phone numbers of your contacts to send text message notifications.
- Physical Activity: (Android 10 and above) Used to detect when you start pet walks.
