com.samsung.android.intellivoiceservice Copy

Shown on the device as "Samsung Intelligence Voice Services", this is a Samsung background component with no launcher icon, signed by a Samsung OEM key. Samsung's own Galaxy Store listing for this package name calls it the Samsung Intelligence Service and describes it as the system that connects Samsung's native apps to the LLM server and to Galaxy Advanced Intelligence services when those apps request them. Its declared permissions point the same way: they include Bixby speech recognition language pack and model permissions, binding to a text-to-speech synthesis service, use of neural machine translation language packs, Samsung account access and binding to Google's AICore service. It is one of the larger preinstalled components in our sample, between roughly 54 MB and 117 MB depending on build. Read it as plumbing for Samsung's Galaxy AI speech and language features (dictation, translation, voice interaction in Samsung apps) rather than as an app a user opens. Exactly which features route through it, and which of those run on the device versus in Samsung's cloud, is not documented per package, so this note stops at the role rather than listing features. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk deployments the useful control is policy rather than package removal. Samsung's Knox Service Plugin exposes a "process data only on device" policy that keeps Galaxy AI processing local, and advanced restriction policies that block individual Galaxy AI operations or all of them, which is the supported way to meet a data governance requirement while leaving the platform intact. Disabling this component instead would be an undocumented route to a similar end and could affect Samsung apps that expect it, so treat it as caution and use the Knox policies where you have them. It is not part of enrolment or device management. Version note: Samsung documents Galaxy AI as available on Galaxy S24 series devices running One UI 6.1 (Android 14) or later with Knox 3.10 or later, and the policy to block all Galaxy AI as needing Knox 3.11 or later, so both the features and the controls over them depend on the Knox and One UI versions in front of you. On this site the package is recorded with target SDKs 34 to 37 (Android 14 to 17) and versions from 1.1.12.33 to 1.3.10.15, so it is moving quickly; treat any feature-level claim as version-specific.

• Samsung Intelligence Service (com.samsung.android.intellivoiceservice) - Samsung Galaxy Store listing →
• Data processing for Galaxy AI - Knox Service Plugin, Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Advanced Restriction policies - Knox Service Plugin, Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.intellivoiceservice - 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 40 permissions: 3 signature or system-level, 8 install-time and 29 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 51.4 MB to 111.5 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.