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Unlike most components documented here it is user-facing: this site records user-facing observations of it.\n\nThe permissions recorded here match the installer reading of Samsung's own label: INSTALL_PACKAGES and DELETE_PACKAGES, BLUETOOTH_PRIVILEGED and Samsung's own wearable and easy-pairing permissions, QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, INTERNET and SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW. Samsung does not publish package-level documentation for the stub, so read the exact division of labour between it and Galaxy Wearable as inferred from the label and permissions rather than as documented behaviour.\n\nVersion note: the package is long-standing but its presentation changed. Samsung's Oreo-era Note9 application list records it with no friendly label at all, at version 1.1.15-13032; the Android 11 S20 list records it as \"Wearable Manager Installer\" at 2.1.01.20006, which is the label current devices here still report, at versions 2.1.01.22002 through 2.1.01.26005 with a target SDK from API 29 to API 36. No source establishes a change in its role across Android releases beyond that relabelling.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use this is a package worth an explicit decision rather than a default. A component that holds INSTALL_PACKAGES and privileged Bluetooth access, and whose Samsung-given label describes it as an installer for a consumer companion app, is not something every kiosk or single-purpose deployment wants active. Deal with it through policy rather than by hand: where the aim is to stop wearable pairing altogether, the Android Management API has a bluetoothDisabled policy, which turns Bluetooth off rather than merely restricting it (the neighbouring bluetoothConfigDisabled policy only disables configuring Bluetooth, so it is not a way of preventing pairing). Samsung separately documents enabling or disabling a specific system app from the EMM console. No disable rating is given below, because no source sets out what stops working if the stub itself is turned off, and in particular whether it makes any difference on a device where Galaxy Wearable is already installed. 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