Samsung Galaxy S26 Users Can Cut 5% to 20% Battery Drain by Disabling Customization Service
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Updated · MUO - MakeUseOf · Jun 6
Samsung Galaxy S26 Users Can Cut 5% to 20% Battery Drain by Disabling Customization Service
3 articles · Updated · MUO - MakeUseOf · Jun 6
Summary
Battery usage logs on a Galaxy S26 showed Samsung’s Customization Service consuming more power than apps like Instagram and YouTube, and turning it off removed the drain from the menu.
Samsung enables the service when users sign in with a Samsung account; it gathers activity across Samsung apps and sends that data to Samsung’s servers, which can keep it active in the background.
Samsung says the service can collect app usage, enabled features, search and browsing history, location data and music preferences, with the data also used for direct marketing and personalized ads.
Users can disable it in Settings under Samsung account privacy controls, but deleting previously collected data requires a separate web request through Samsung’s My Data deletion page.
The reported trade-off was minimal—core apps and features kept working normally—while other battery-saving options on Galaxy phones include Light performance mode and Sleeping Apps.