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Samsung Galaxy phones
Raised as a usability problem by 28 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 26 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Phone too slow to keep up with typing and browsingUnreviewed
20102026- Using the phone as a remote was extremely slow and laggy2021-04-11
- Phone became very slow, keyboard blamed for lag and sluggish input2018-07-02
- Phone's UI has become so slow after updates it is almost unusable2014-10-09
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 29 complaints
- AI features get in the way of taking screenshots and reading full notifications2025-04-23
- Button prompts for a Samsung account before its behavior can be changed, so user must disable it via adb2023-11-01
- Camera gets seconds-long delays as photo storage fills past about half2023-10-05
- Can't view a saved Wi-Fi password as plain text, only as a QR code2023-09-11
- Scrolling lags behind finger movement and sometimes glitches2023-06-28
- Can't find which modem chipset the phone uses in settings2023-03-17
- Using the phone as a remote was extremely slow and laggy2021-04-11
- Unlock fails often, forcing 5-10 seconds of fiddling before getting into the phone2020-11-09
- Updates keep reinstalling bloatware and re-enabling Facebook background services2020-09-02
- Phone became very slow, keyboard blamed for lag and sluggish input2018-07-02
- Notifications are hard to read, so the person cannot see message contents2018-02-26
- Dedicated Bixby button is annoying to the user on the S8+2018-02-26
- Top menu links go to other pages instead of sections, so specs like microSD are hard to find2018-02-26
- Brightness set to minimum for night reading makes the screen unreadable in daylight, so it can't be restored2016-11-07
- Phone's UI has become so slow after updates it is almost unusable2014-10-09
- Stylus loses about 5% of strokes with noticeable lag2014-06-19
- Hard to keep reading because tab limit forces constant closing of tabs2014-02-03
- Pen is less responsive than expected and requires training to use2013-11-19
- Phone is too slow to keep up with typing and browsing2013-07-23
- Browser crashes when copying serial number from a complex banking page2013-02-21
- Phone battery drained mysteriously and became unusable even after factory resets2012-12-07
- Keeps tapping wrong links and app icons, forcing repeated back presses2012-10-27
- Too hard for average users to set up; files can't be copied from Mac by default2012-09-21
- Going from the mail app to the home screen takes about two seconds, every time2011-12-05
- Phone lags right after waking because it starts syncing2011-12-05
- Users struggle to figure out how to unlock the phone2011-09-17
- Default Google Calendar widget removed, forcing users onto Samsung's own widgets2011-02-08
- Firmware upgrade requires Kies on Windows and often fails with an error2010-10-29
- Apps and OS sometimes appear to hang when loading or pressing buttons2010-07-29