JAKARTA - Epic Games said it had dropped its lawsuit against Samsung, which claims the South Korean smartphone company implemented an active Auto Blocker feature by default.
In its September 2024 lawsuit, Epic Games stated that this feature blocks app installations from sources other than Google Play and the Samsung Galaxy Store including the Epic Games Store app store.
But fortunately, Samsung has responded to Epic Games concerns over the matter. Which ultimately led Epic Games to withdraw their lawsuit.
We’re dismissing our court case against Samsung following the parties’ discussions. We are grateful that Samsung will address Epic’s concerns. https://t.co/fgJYU6NMH0
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 7, 2025
We’re dismissing our court case against Samsung following the parties’ discussions. We are grateful that Samsung will address Epic’s concerns. https://t.co/fgJYU6NMH0
"We canceled the court's lawsuit against Samsung after the parties discussed it. We are grateful that Samsung will respond to Epic concerns," Epic CEO and founder Timek said on X.
Auto Blocker is a setting that Samsung introduced on their mobile devices in October 2023 as an opt-in feature that disables the user's ability to install apps from any source other than the Google Play Store and the Samsung Galaxy Store.
However, in July 2024, Samsung reversed course and made Auto Blocker a default setting, requiring each user to change their device settings before they can download and install any app from third-party or web app stores.
Epic's lawsuit at the time stated that the Galaxy Store was installed on millions of devices, but only resulted in one percent of app sales.
They also accused Samsung and Google of having close ties that led the Korean giant to reduce its emphasis on the Galaxy Store to help the search giant dominate app sales.
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The lawsuit also notes that in 2019 Samsung agreed to sell Epic's popular Fortnite game on the Galaxy Store, although the game wasn't sold on the Play Store.
Epic accused Google of "barring Samsung a revenue-sharing deal in which Samsung will release its Galaxy Store independent operations in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars."
"As shown in the case of the United States v. Google and Epic v. Google, Google is used to paying billions to OEM to prevent business competition," Epic wrote in his lawsuit last year.
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