com.sec.android.easyonehand Copy

Recorded on this site with the label "EasyOneHand", this is a Samsung system component on Galaxy phones and tablets. Samsung documents a One-handed mode that scales down the display so the screen can be reached with one hand: it is switched on at Settings, Advanced features, One-handed mode, and is activated either by swiping down on the centre of the bottom edge of the screen or by double-tapping the home button, after which the shrunken window can be moved, resized and swapped between sides. Samsung does not publish the package name behind that feature, so the mapping here rests on the label, the namespace and the permissions the package declares rather than on a Samsung statement. Those permissions fit the feature closely. The site records it asking for INJECT_EVENTS and MONITOR_INPUT, which is what a component that watches for an activation gesture and passes input into a repositioned window needs; READ_FRAME_BUFFER and INTERNAL_SYSTEM_WINDOW, which fit drawing and scaling the display; STATUS_BAR and STATUS_BAR_SERVICE, STOP_APP_SWITCHES, WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS and WRITE_SETTINGS, which fit changing system state when the mode is toggled; and INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL and MANAGE_USERS. It is signed by Samsung under keys the site also records signing the framework package, has no launcher icon and is not user-facing in any observation here, which is consistent with a Settings-driven feature rather than an app. Do not confuse it with One Hand Operation +, which Samsung describes as a separate application downloaded from the Galaxy Store that adds customisable edge swipe gestures. That is a different, optional product. Version note: the platform itself gained a one-handed mode of its own, and Google's accessibility documentation for using one-handed mode states that some of its steps work only on Android 12 and up. Samsung nonetheless still documents its own One-handed mode under Advanced features on current Galaxy devices, so both exist in the ecosystem, and which implementation a particular Galaxy firmware actually drives could not be sourced. The version names recorded here run from 6.0 to 9.0 against target SDKs from 31 to 36, so the component has clearly been reworked across releases, but Samsung publishes no changelog and what changed at each step could not be sourced. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use this is a user convenience feature with no documented role in enrolment or policy, and no Android Enterprise or Knox documentation refers to it. On a kiosk or single-app device the scaling gesture is an accessibility and usability consideration rather than a security one, since it changes how the screen is presented rather than what can be run. Because the package is platform-signed and holds input and window permissions, disabling it could have effects beyond removing the menu entry that Samsung does not document, so treat it as caution and test on a single device first.

• Use one handed mode on your Galaxy phone - Samsung US Support →
• How to use One-handed mode and One Hand Operation + - Samsung UK Support →
• Use one-handed mode - Android Accessibility Help →
• Package provenance for com.sec.android.easyonehand - 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 24 permissions: 1 runtime (user-granted), 16 signature or system-level, 3 install-time and 4 vendor or uncatalogued. The signature/system share marks it as a privileged component, not an ordinary app.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.