Last updated: August 1st, 2024 at 18:54 UTC+02:00
Samsung Keyboard for Android offers one of the highest number of features among all the keyboards available for the OS. One of them is support for extensions from third-party applications, which allow you to access some of the services of those apps right from the keyboard to help you type and communicate more easily. Among them were extensions for Grammarly, Spotify, and YouTube. Unfortunately, not anymore. Samsung has removed extensions for Grammarly, Spotify, and YouTube from Samsung Keyboard.Summarize in one-click with Galaxy AI
What functionalities did they offer?
The extension for Grammarly checked for grammatical mistakes in the content that you typed and offered fixes for those errors.
The extension for Spotify let you search for a song on the music streaming platform and fetch the link to that song in the text input field. It allowed you to share a song on Spotify with someone right from the keyboard, eliminating the steps of minimizing the messaging platform, going to the Spotify app, searching for the song, copying the link to it, coming back to the messaging app, and pasting it in the text input field.
The extension for YouTube offered the same functionality as that for Spotify. It allowed you to search for a song on the video streaming service and let you fetch the link for that video in the text input field so that you could share a video on it with someone without having to switch between applications.
When and why did Samsung remove them?
We don’t know when Samsung removed extensions for those services but when we opened Samsung Keyboard today and tried to access them, they were not there anymore. There’s also no information about why the company took this step.
Going by comments on some of the videos for the YouTube extension, it seemed to bypass parental restrictions, allowing kids to access content inappropriate for them from the keyboard. That could be the reason why Samsung removed the extension for YouTube. It might have removed the extension for Spotify for the same reason. But why it removed the extension for Grammarly will remain a mystery.
These extensions were very helpful for many people, and they were the reason why many people were using Samsung Keyboard over other keyboards. We hope that Samsung fixes whatever issues those extensions had and brings them back.
