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"Multi control", Samsung's feature for driving more than one Galaxy device from a single keyboard, mouse or trackpad. Samsung publishes the package on the Galaxy Store under that name, and its support documentation describes the behaviour: move the pointer off the edge of one screen and onto another device, type on either, copy and paste between them, and drag and drop files across. Samsung states the feature needs One UI 5.1 or later on the Galaxy phone or tablet, both devices signed in to the same Samsung account and on the same Wi-Fi network, with Bluetooth enabled. It is signed by a Samsung framework key and carries no launcher entry here, so it is a system component that surfaces through Settings rather than an app. The permissions this site records line up closely with that description and are the reason it deserves attention on a managed device: INJECT_EVENTS and MONITOR_INPUT for taking input from another machine, MANAGE_DISPLAYS, MANAGE_ACTIVITY_TASKS and MANAGE_ACTIVITY_STACKS, MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for the file transfer, and READ_CLIPBOARD_IN_BACKGROUND. It also declares SIDESYNC_RECEIVER_PERMISSION, SAMSUNG_FLOW_RECEIVER_PERMISSION and USE_CONTINUITY_PROVIDER. Those names echo Samsung's earlier SideSync and Samsung Flow products and the Continuity Service documented above, but this site records only that the permissions are declared: that establishes neither a product lineage nor an integration with com.samsung.android.mcfds. Version note: builds recorded here run from 1.8.01.13 to 2.7.01.10, targeting API 34 to 37. Multi control is a comparatively recent addition, gated on One UI 5.1 by Samsung's own requirement, so on older fleet devices the package may be absent or the feature unavailable even where the package is present. Samsung documents no change of role in a later release, and none was found. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk work this is a two-way door in the device boundary: a clipboard shared with another machine, files dragged in both directions, and input injected into the managed device from hardware the EMM never sees. On a single-purpose device it is also a potential route out of the intended experience. Knox Service Plugin publishes no Multi control restriction; Allow Clipboard is the nearest documented control and Samsung does not document it as governing this feature, so do not assume it does without testing. Blocking the package by name through Knox Manage's application policies is the documented route to remove it. Caution rather than safe only because the wider effects of removing it are undocumented; the expected user-visible result is the loss of Multi control.

• Multi control on Galaxy Store →
• Use Multi control to share a keyboard and mouse between Galaxy devices - Samsung Support →
• How to use Multi Control on your Samsung phone or tablet - Samsung UK →
• Device restrictions - Knox Service Plugin - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Enable or disable a specific system app - Knox Manage - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.inputshare - 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 18 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 46 permissions: 5 runtime (user-granted), 17 signature or system-level, 10 install-time and 14 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 6.3 MB to 10.1 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app on 11 of 18 profiles - a newer build is installed over the one in the system image there.