You kinda gotta use both. As MrGhoul said it's primarily for updating Samsung exclusive apps. However there are some good offers on it, and all software should be optimized for your device which is very neat. I am pretty sure LumaFusion (normally being either $20-30USD) is straight up free due to a partnership between LumaTouch and Samsung. So it's good for that I guess.
You'll want to keep the Galaxy Store activated to keep your software up to date. I believe it can update automatically.
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However you can hide it from your home screen if it's wasting space.
Go to your home screen and hold to see "Wallpapers and Style, Themes, Widgets and Settings" Press settings Scroll down to find "Hide apps on Home and Apps screens" Then toggle Galaxy Store.
What this will do is remove seeing the app from both your home screen and app screen, while allowing it to still operate (install updates). You can always search for it and it'll show up. It'll just be out of the way then š
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Removing notifications from the Galaxy Store Because I'll be honest. The notifications are really annoying.
Go into your main settings Notifications App Notifications Press the 3 dots on the top right -> show system apps Find the Galaxy Store Set the alerts to silent, Then click notification categories Turn off everything you don't want to see like event notifs, or general notifications.
This will make it so it shouldn't be intrusive anymore and you can properly forget about it even being there.
@King_of_The_Cats The Galaxy Store is not a duplicate of the Play Store. There are many Samsung apps which are specific to Samsung devices and only available in the Galaxy Store. Also there are many apps which offer specific features/deals to Samsung devices. These are only available in the version downloaded from the Galaxy Store.
