Samsung Keyboard removes Grammarly, Spotify and YouTube plugins

Samsung Keyboard silently removed Grammarly, Spotify, and YouTube plugins. Whether it’s a bug causing the removal of three useful extensions is subject to be verified. However, it could be a part of pushing Galaxy AI features for the Keyboard app.

Grammarly, Spotify, and YouTube plugins are no longer available on Samsung Keyboard. The company has silently ditched these tools from Galaxy’s native keyboard app. A report says that policy violation led to the YouTube extension being removed.

It is reported that the YouTube extension in Samsung Keyboard bypassed parental restrictions. It allowed kids to access content inappropriate through the Keyboard app. However, it is neither confirmed by Samsung nor Google/YouTube.

A similar reason could have led the Spotify extension to be removed from Keyboard. YouTube and Spotify plugins in Samsung Keyboard offered the same functionality. Meanwhile, Grammarly’s removal from the plugins list is yet to be known.

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Samsung brought plugins/extensions for user convenience. These are tools from third-party applications that offer seamless access. The plugins were used to deeply integrate functions across services without OS-level requirements.

Galaxy AI brings several assistance services for Samsung apps. Grammarly is quite a popular and useful service, but getting promoted by Samsung’s Keyboard itself. We guess Galaxy AI’s inclusion could have led Grammarly to part ways.

Samsung is preparing to begin rolling out One UI 6.1.1 features. Older foldable phones and tablets could get the incremental update this month. Without a version bump, regular flagships will also likely get new features and functional improvements.