Samsung reportedly is developing a new Galaxy AI-powered app called Memory, aimed at solving a common smartphone frustration: remembering something useful and then struggling to find it again. “The app is said to enable users to collect screenshots, links, text, imported content and voice notes in one place, with AI doing the work of organizing everything,” SamMobile reports.
The app has been spotted in its onboarding screens and early interface details, suggesting development is already underway. Samsung hasn’t announced anything officially about Memory or a release date, but the app will probably arrive with One UI 9.5. If it does, it may be useful for people who save articles, ideas, reminders, and snippets of information throughout the day.
Samsung Memory will make your scattered saves into organized collections.
The app’s onboarding screens hint at the various ways users can save content. They can screenshot, import from other apps via the Share menu, copy and paste links or text, and record voice notes. Samsung also provides shortcuts for content capture, like a three-finger swipe down for screenshots and holding down the Volume Up and Side buttons simultaneously for a voice note.
The interesting thing is what happens after you save something. Memory uses AI to generate a title, summarize content, add relevant tags, and group related items into collections. It can even recognize screenshots of web pages and search for the original link to the site so users don’t have to hunt down an article they saved weeks earlier.
You paste a link to a webpage into the app, and it seems to automatically go through a process of grabbing the title, generating a short description, and pulling out key information. Users can then edit the titles, mark the entry as favorite, lock it, move it into collections, or delete it.
Samsung’s response to Pixel Screenshots coming with One UI 9.5
Smartphone software is getting on board with a popular concept in memory: using AI to make it easier to find stored information. Google’s Pixel Screenshots and Oppo’s Mind Space do something similar. Samsung has a Collection app, but only in China.
The appeal for Galaxy users is simple. Screenshots, links copied and voice recordings get lost in other apps and folders. A searchable space that automatically tags and links these items could make a phone far more useful for everyday research, planning and remembering things.
Also, there is one privacy point to watch out for. Samsung says that saved content is processed but not saved on the app’s settings screen. It also enables you to process data only on the device, although Samsung says some advanced intelligence features require online processing.
Samsung has not yet announced the release date for Memory. It’s expected to ship with One UI 9.5 in the coming weeks, but that’s an expectation, not an official promise of delivery.
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