It ended on 15 June 2026. Here is what it did, what to clear off your phone, and what covers the same job now.
Samsung Max — the data-saving and VPN tool that shipped on a lot of Galaxy phones — was shut down on 15 June 2026. The update released in April 2026 was announced as its final version, and the service stayed available until the June date. Samsung has not named a direct replacement.
It had a longer history than most people realise: it began life as Opera Max, which Opera discontinued, after which Samsung took it on and rebranded it. So this is the second time this particular tool has gone away.
On many devices the app is still installed. It opens. It does nothing. It no longer compresses traffic, no longer saves data, and no longer provides VPN protection, and it should not be relied on for any of those.
Clear the leftover VPN profile, or a replacement may not work.
Android allows exactly one active VPN at a time. A dead profile left behind by a discontinued app can silently block whatever you install next.
Check Settings → Connections → More connection settings → VPN and remove anything belonging to the old app. On non-Samsung phones the path is usually Settings → Network & internet → VPN.
The tool bundled several things together. Worth separating them, because they are not all gone and they do not all need replacing:
Data Saver covers the first two of those: every app ranked by what it spent this cycle, split into what you used and what the app spent on its own, with a restriction switch on the same row and separate control for mobile data and Wi-Fi.
It does not do the third or fourth. It does not route your traffic anywhere and it is not a VPN.
It has no INTERNET permission. The permission is absent
from the manifest, so Android will not let it open a network connection at all — it
could not send your traffic through a server if it wanted to. No accounts, no analytics,
no servers, no ads.
It does use Android’s VpnService, which is the standard way to
control which apps may use the network without root, and is why Android shows a key icon.
Nothing is routed anywhere; the connection is local to your phone. The source is public,
so this is checkable rather than a claim.
Free, no ads, works offline. Requires Android 7.0 or later.
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