com.samsung.android.singletake.service Copy

Samsung's service component behind Single Take, the camera mode that captures a burst of stills and clips from one press of the shutter. Samsung's own published Common Criteria application lists for Galaxy devices name this package "Single Take", so the mapping from package to feature is Samsung's rather than an inference. Writing about the Galaxy S20 series, Samsung describes the mode as using AI to capture up to 14 types of photo and video from between three and ten seconds of shooting, then offering the results for selection afterwards. Those figures are Samsung's for that implementation and should not be read as fixed across later devices and releases. The package has no launcher entry of its own: the mode is entered from inside the Camera app. Version note, and it matters here. Samsung's own troubleshooting article states that the feature "has been removed starting with One UI 8.5", and tells users to switch Single take back on in the Camera Assistant settings, under Additional modes, after which it is reached again by tapping More in the Camera app. So on recent firmware the mode is off by default and the presence of this package no longer implies it is offered. What this site's own data can and cannot say about that is worth stating plainly. Builds recorded here carry version names from 3.0.00.26 to 8.1.00.18, and Samsung's Android 11 era application lists record 2.0.00.29 and 2.1.00.37 for the same package. A package version name cannot be mapped to a One UI release, and this site records no One UI version, so whether the package itself is still present, or still installed in the same form, on a One UI 8.5 build cannot be established from these figures. Observations span API 31 to API 37 with a target SDK roll-up of 30 to 36, which are independent roll-ups across observations rather than a per-build pairing. Provenance is straightforward. Every observation here is on a Samsung device and carries a single Samsung signing certificate, one that also signs the Android framework, so this is a platform preinstall rather than anything installed from a store, and no observation is Play-eligible. It is not a small component: recorded builds run from roughly 18 MB to 43 MB across 32 device models. Its permissions are what a camera feature that writes results to the gallery would need, including a camera foreground service type, broad media read and write access, MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, and read or write access to several Samsung media, filter and face providers. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk fleets it has no enrolment or management role and nothing an administrator configures. On a dedicated device that never takes photographs the feature it backs is not part of the workflow, though what the component does in the background there was not established here, and its size makes it a reasonable candidate where storage on the system image is being reviewed. Where photography is part of the workflow, the prudent assumption is that disabling it removes the Single Take mode and leaves ordinary capture alone, but that is inference from its scope rather than sourced, so verify the camera flow on one device before applying it fleet wide.

• What is Single Take on Galaxy phones and how to use it - Samsung UK →
• Single take mode missing from the Camera app on Galaxy phones - Samsung US →
• Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (G998B) Application List - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Galaxy S20 5G (G981U) Application List - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.singletake.service - 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 23 permissions: 6 runtime (user-granted), 2 signature or system-level, 5 install-time and 10 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 17.1 MB to 41.7 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.