I agree totally. Here's what is happening, and it's pretty confusing and misleading.
First I am told that I have to set to two-step verification (which is also interchangeably called 2FA, which will confuse anyone who doesn't know what that is, and in fact the two are not always the same). I am told I must do this, so that my number will be shared by the App....
Reading this page, the first thing I am thinking, is that I will opt out of this "feature" as soon as I can.
So when I see this screen next, I select "not now", thinking I am opting out of the whole "using my phone number service".
However I see now, that I must be opting out of the whole app.
This then gave me an error message page.
This is all very poor indeed, in terms of both security, misleading people about how data is used, and UX.
1) if the "not now" means I cannot access the app, the next page should say "you need to set up 2FA to access your account", not give me a tech DNS error message!
2) the whole thing should be structured as "you need to set up 2FA as a security measure in order to access your account". That would be completely fine.
3) Then later somewhere, there should be a feature notification, saying "Samsung can use your number to help friends find you..... do you want to switch this on?"
Tying the two things together, giving you an opt out that does something different, not explaining why you're doing what you're doing and what the consequences are, poor messaging and error handling... all very very bad.
Then the support line told me I had to contact Romanian support as my watch (unconnected to being able to access the app on my phone), was Romanian (actually bought in Samsung store in UK), and they would not speak English....
0/10 for the whole Samsung experience this month.
