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The People edge panel, made by Samsung and shown on devices as "People". Samsung describes the People panel as placing up to ten chosen contacts within easy reach, so a call or message can be started from the edge handle without opening Contacts. Samsung documents the panel rather than the package name, so the pairing here rests on the on-device label, the shared Samsung platform signer and the panel Samsung names in its own edge panel guidance, not on a published package mapping. Version note: People edge is older than the current panel list and used to do more. On the curved-screen Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung documented People edge as a companion to Edge lighting, colour-coding the edge of the screen by which priority contact had sent a notification. This package also carries a notably privileged permission set for a panel, including CALL_PRIVILEGED and DISABLE_KEYGUARD, which suggests it still does more than draw a list of contacts. We could not source what survives of the notification side on current One UI releases, so treat the panel and any contact-related notification behaviour as separate questions on a given fleet rather than assuming they still travel together. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use the panel is a way to place calls and messages from over the top of the foreground app, which matters on dedicated devices where telephony is meant to be constrained. Knox Service Plugin's Allow Edge screen policy disables the whole edge panel feature across a fleet and is the tidier control. Disabling this package specifically is rated with caution rather than safe because of its privileged permissions and the unresolved question above: unlike a plain panel, it may back other contact-facing behaviour, so test the effect on calling, messaging and notifications before rolling it out.

• How to make the most out of Edge panels - Samsung UK Support →
• Add or remove Edge panels on your Galaxy phone or tablet - Samsung US Support →
• Galaxy S6 edge: How do I use Edge lighting and People edge features on Edge screen? - Samsung HK Support →
• Device restrictions (Allow Edge screen) - Knox Service Plugin, Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Why Edge Panels are my secret weapon for multitasking on Samsung phones - Android Authority →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.service.peoplestripe - 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 38 permissions: 3 runtime (user-granted), 19 signature or system-level, 6 install-time and 10 vendor or uncatalogued. The signature/system share marks it as a privileged component, not an ordinary app.
• APK size ranges from 3.7 MB to 5.8 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.