If you are a user of VPN and the one you use on your mobile is Samsung Maxtoday you will have had an unpleasant surprise. Samsung announced yesterday that, with immediate effect, closed the Samsung Max VPN service, which was used by more than 50 million people.
Samsung Max VPN was an application for Android born on February 23, 2018 from the ashes of Opera Maxa very popular VPN to save data that Opera He had retired the previous year. Samsung bought the abandoned service, rebranded it and added a native Samsung interface to integrate it into the ecosystem Galaxy.
A VPN is mainly used to encrypt the internet connection and hide the IP address real user data, especially useful when connecting to public or unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Samsung Max VPN could also do things like compress images, help manage background data on an app-by-app basis, reduce video data consumption, compress music files, optimize web pages, and block ad trackers in incognito mode. The app was free, although with advanced paid functions.
If you open the application now, a closing notice appears warning that all VPN, data saving and privacy services They stopped working on June 15, 2026. Its creators have not given a reason for the closure and have limited themselves to publishing a farewell note that says ‘Thank you for being with us all these years. Your support and activity meant a lot to us and helped shape this app into what it became.’ This same message also appears in the application tab in Google Play Store.
The closure comes two months after Samsung Messages was announced
Max VPN is the latest Samsung service to join the list of applications withdrawn by the company. Just two months ago, the Korean tech giant announced it was shutting down completely Samsung Messagesforcing millions of users to migrate to Google Messages next month.
The only devices that will not be affected by the closure are older smartphones with Android 11 or previous versions. Some of the Google Messages features that Samsung hopes to attract users include AI-powered scam detection to block suspicious links, built-in Gemini for quick responses, conversation personalization, and universal compatibility with RCS to share high-quality multimedia content with users of iOS.
The platform also offers seamless syncing between tablets and smartwatches. Additionally, users access message scheduling, smart sorting, and automatic category sorting.