com.samsung.android.aremojieditor Copy

The editor behind Galaxy Avatar, labelled AR Emoji Editor on older Galaxy builds and Avatar Editor on newer ones. It is the customisation half of the feature documented in the entry above for com.samsung.android.aremoji, which Samsung describes as letting you create a personalised emoji from a selfie and then change how it looks. Unlike the main package it does carry a launcher entry: 47 of the 51 observations recorded here show it as user-facing. It is Samsung-signed and seen only on Samsung hardware, on 32 devices. Size is the headline for anyone managing storage. In our sample this package is between roughly 206 MB and 225 MB, which makes it one of the larger preinstalled components on a Galaxy device and considerably bigger than the Galaxy Avatar package it serves. Its declared permissions are modest by comparison, 23 in total, and include INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, storage read and write, READ_PHONE_STATE, QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, REORDER_TASKS and a set of Samsung permissions naming the sticker centre, the handwriting SDK and the edge panel service. This site records declared rather than granted permissions, and nothing consulted here documents what the editor does with any of them. Both packages reference the same permission namespace. The declared permissions recorded here show com.samsung.android.aremoji naming com.samsung.android.aremoji.editor.permission.BIND_WATCH_DOG_SERVICE, and this package naming a backend service permission under the same com.samsung.android.aremoji.editor prefix. That is a shared naming scheme in declared permissions, not proof of a runtime dependency: which package defines either permission, and what happens if one is disabled and the other left in place, is undocumented in anything consulted here and would have to be tested. Version note. Samsung's Common Criteria application lists record AR Emoji Editor as a separate package on Android 11 firmware, at 4.3.01.3 on the Galaxy S20 FE (G781B) list and 4.3.01.5 on the Galaxy S20 (G981U) list, while the Android 9 Galaxy S10+ (G975F) list carries AR Emoji but no separate editor. On that evidence the editor looks like a later split rather than something that was always its own package, though absence from one device list is not proof and the release at which it split could not be sourced. This site observes both AR Emoji Editor and Avatar Editor as labels for this package, across languages, which is consistent with the Galaxy Avatar rename Samsung documents at Android 15 and One UI 7.0 for the feature as a whole. Samsung's cited documentation does not name this package, so neither the package-level rename nor the release at which its label changed is established here. Devices here run 6.1.00.8 through 9.0.00.2, observed from API 33 to API 37 and targeting API 34 to 37. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use this is consumer personalisation with no corporate purpose, and on a fleet the storage argument alone usually settles it. Block it with an Android Management API applications entry using installType BLOCKED, or on a Samsung fleet through Knox Manage's documented control for enabling or disabling a named preinstalled system app. Where the feature is not wanted at all, covering com.samsung.android.aremoji in the same policy avoids leaving half of it behind, though as noted above the runtime relationship between the two is undocumented. The rating matches that package for the same reason: the feature is reachable from the Camera app's AR Zone, and no source consulted says what the camera does once these packages are gone, so test the change on one device first.

• Turn yourself into an emoji on your Galaxy phone or tablet - Samsung US Support →
• Galaxy S10+ LTE (G975F) application list - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Galaxy S20 FE 5G (G781B) application list - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Galaxy S20 5G (G981U) application list - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Policy resource reference (applications installType BLOCKED) - Android Management API →
• Enable or disable a specific system app - Knox Manage - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.aremojieditor - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 14 device profiles. 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 23 permissions: 3 runtime (user-granted), 6 install-time and 14 vendor or uncatalogued.
• Reported as an updated system app on 5 of 14 profiles - a newer build is installed over the one in the system image there.