Exclusive: Here’s Your First Look at Memory, Samsung’s Take on Pixel Screenshots
By Google News Technology ·
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Samsung’s competition has been heating up in the software space. The likes of Oppo and Google have apps for storing and organising screenshots for a while now, with the likes of Mind Space and Pixel Screenshots. Samsung themselves have an app of this kind in China, called Collection. But that idea seems to be evolving, and Samsung are developing an entirely new app called Memory.
The Memory app starts blank, but you can add all sorts in here. A screenshot, an image from your gallery, a block of text, or even a voice note can be stored here.
The app stores context from wherever the content was captured from. For example, if you capture a memory from Samsung Browser, it’ll also include context from that webpage, and will link back to it in the app.
It’ll then use AI to rename the saved item, generate a description, and even applicable tags. They’re then sorted by captured app, so you can jump to whatever app you know you took them from, like Instagram for all the memes you’ve found.
You can then group those into collections, very much inspired by its Chinese counterpart. So you have a place to store your favourite memes, or group various sources when researching a topic. You can then get an AI summary of the contents of that collection, and its details.
With One UI 9.5, you’ll have a few options to save a memory. You can share it from the share menu, for an image, file or link. You’ll be able to press the side + volume up buttons to start a voice memo, or do a three finger swipe down gesture to capture whatever is on your screen. The latter comes with this luscious new animation.
There’s much more involved with this app, like semantic search for any of the saved memories. It’ll be a truly handy app to have.
Going off the evidence provided, there doesn’t seem to be any device feature gates. It will need One UI 9.5 to trigger any of the gestures though. As for its AI processing, it targets Samsung’s SPAC cloud, using the gemma-4-31b model. It’ll fall back to Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite if the former fails. There is no evidence it’s linked to the Galaxy AI Premium subscription just yet.
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Originally published by Google News Technology
