Disable Gallery Stories - if not who has access?

[zeroktal]

 I use the s24 Ultra  for pictures at work and am concerned. Is there a way to disable Samsung Gallery Stories? If not what data am I giving up? IE are the processed and or stored locally or remotely? Who can see them?

[Merc Fredis]

Thank you so much, when you say "Click three buttons" I think we all looked at the main ones at the top.  Your graphic clearly showed how to see the Galaxy stories app and disable it.  What a creepy feature.  This should be opt-in only.

[Merc Fredis]

That turns off notifications for galaxy stories, and doesn't stop them from being generated.

[Merc Fredis]

Follow zeroktal's directions above, you need to go to Apps, show hidden apps, and disable galaxy stories.

[Chopperchops1]

Wow!  Thansk for this.

Unbelievably hard to work out how to do this without your clear screenshots.

The entire Gallery stories prompt have been incredibly triggering, seeing a traumatic past relationship photos from 3 and 5 years back just randomly appearing.

[ApplesShouldBeEaten]

Once you've located  Gallery Stories in Apps, how did you disable it? I've no option to do that.
Never mind, I saw the tiny toggle on the bottom left of the screen as I was asking the question I'm only submitting this comment for others that may have overlooked it. Thanks for this suggestion.

[NYCkid]

This only disables the notification that you have stores ready to view, it does not stop the phone from creating them.

[Chas5]

This issue made me very concerned about Samsung.  They state that user privacy is import the them.  After being surprised by my gallery stories and trying very hard to stop it from doing that (all the ways to stop has been carefully hidden), I realized that they are scanning all my private photos and using some technology to generate stories for somebody.  Surely not for me since I did not ask for it.  Most likely for marketing but easily abused by everyone.   This opens the door for me to ask, what else?  Are they reading all my private texts, emails, web activities, locations and app activities to create stories to sell to marketers?  What about Samsung TVs?  

I really liked Samsung technology until this eye opening event.  Now I see it as no different than Google.  At least Google offers a ton of free apps.  You have to pay for Samsung, do you know what I mean?   

[KAL9000]

I spent almost 2 hours to be able to find the "Show System Apps" which -on a Galaxy S22 - is hidden under Apps on a greyed-out "Your apps", next to which, is an even darker button that opens a sub-app with the button to show system apps...  Noting that after clicking OK and disabling "Gallery Stories" the phone automatically reverts the "Show System Apps" to the Off position.

Thanks for the help, I hope I never see these stories again.

[Dan-frm-Atl]

One more thing I would suggest, as I've found this helpful with other unwanted apps: once you have found an offending app, before you disable it, revoke all its permissions (files, photos, location, camera/mic, any permissions that app has.  Each time you do, you'll get a warning that you might break something--don't worry, you are TRYING to break that app.  Once it has no permissions, block it's ability to send notifications.  Then force stop (lower right button) clear memory (cache & app), and only then disable the app.

And for any app that doesn't let you do one or more of the above, do as many as you can. 

[Members_5OLrheS]

HI. Even it says that Costumization Service is  "not in use" , just open it and you will find that the switch is on. Then you could turn it off eventually.