com.samsung.android.app.smartcapture Copy

Labelled "Samsung capture" on the device and signed by Samsung OEM keys that also sign the Android framework, this is the Galaxy screen-capture layer. Its recorded permissions line up with that: reading the frame buffer, managing media projection, capturing video and audio output, and private permissions belonging to Samsung's scroll capture service. Samsung's own support page describes what a user sees, namely that taking a screenshot brings up a menu offering scroll capture for long screenshots, draw for editing before sharing, add tag, and share, alongside the Smart Select function and the screen recorder. Samsung does not publish package-level documentation, so read the mapping from this package to those features as inferred from the device label and the permission set rather than as documented behaviour. In an Android Enterprise, EMM or kiosk context the important point is that this package is not the control surface for screenshots. If your aim is to stop users capturing sensitive screens, the supported route is policy: a device owner or profile owner calls setScreenCaptureDisabled through DevicePolicyManager, added in API level 21, which also prevents content being shown on display devices without a secure video output. Disabling the Samsung package instead is the wrong tool - it removes the capture toolbar, scroll capture and Smart Select rather than blocking capture itself, and we could not source whether basic screenshot handling on a Galaxy build falls back cleanly without it. Test on one device before doing it at fleet scale. Version note: builds observed here run from 4.9.90.4 to 6.2.34, targeting API 31 up to 37. The permissions recorded across those builds include bindings to Samsung's on-device AI services, which suggests the feature set has grown over time, but our data does not attribute individual permissions to individual builds and Samsung does not publish a version-by-version breakdown, so the exact capture features available will vary by One UI version and by device and are best confirmed on the hardware in front of you.

• Record and capture your Galaxy phone or tablet's screen - Samsung US →
• DevicePolicyManager.setScreenCaptureDisabled - Android Developers →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.app.smartcapture - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, but 2 different certificates appear across the fleet, so OEMs ship their own builds of it. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (508 packages, 10196 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 194 permissions: 5 runtime (user-granted), 38 signature or system-level, 16 install-time and 135 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 29.7 MB to 128.1 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app on 3 of 22 profiles - a newer build is installed over the one in the system image there.