com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare.storage Copy

Labelled "Storage Share" in our sample, with localised equivalents in other locales, this is a Samsung system package. Its label matches Samsung's Storage share feature, which Samsung documents as letting a Samsung TV or PC access and use files stored on Galaxy phones and tablets running One UI 7 and Android 15, so that documents, photos and videos on the phone can be viewed from the PC's File Explorer or the TV's Connected Devices menu. Samsung's support article says both devices must have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Storage share enabled, and that it is switched on under Settings > Connected devices > Storage share, where the user then selects the PC or TV to share with. The article documents the feature rather than naming this package, so the tie between the two rests on the label and is an inference. In our sample it is recorded only on Samsung devices. Where this site holds signer data, it is signed by a Samsung OEM key that also signs the Android framework, a platform-level key. Its requested permissions include READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO, READ_MEDIA_AUDIO, INTERNET, the Bluetooth scan, advertise and connect permissions, and a permission named com.samsung.android.permission.HW_RESOURCE_SHARE that is also requested by com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare (Camera Share); this site cannot establish which package declares that permission. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds request which permissions cannot be established. Version note: Samsung documents Storage share for devices running One UI 7 and Android 15. Consistent with that, this site has observed this package only on devices reporting API 35 to 37 (Android 15 and later), and this site's roll-up reports versions from 1.1.00.38 to 1.9.00.10. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, no enrolment or management role is identified in the sources cited here. If this package is the Storage share component its label indicates, it exposes files on the phone to a connected PC or TV, which is worth assessing where corporate data must not leave the device; whether any EMM data-sharing restriction also covers Storage share could not be sourced. The effects of disabling it could not be established from these sources, so test on a single device first.

• Use Storage share on your Samsung phone or tablet - Samsung US Support →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare.storage - Android System App Database →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.hwresourceshare - 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 (580 packages, 11729 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 26 permissions: 8 runtime (user-granted), 3 signature or system-level, 9 install-time and 6 vendor or uncatalogued.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.