Yesterday, Samsung Electronics announced that it has updated its global smart home platform SmartThings to provide improved experiences that help users better care for their families and themselves in everyday life.
Samsung Elevates Experiences To Care for Users and Their Families With SmartThings Updatehttps://t.co/zbx3E8sorY
— Samsung Electronics (@Samsung) April 15, 2026
Updated SmartThings
Enhanced Family Care
Family Care connects SmartThings with a range of home appliances and mobile devices to provide notifications regarding the activities of users’ ageing parents and reminders for medication and hospital visits, as well as location-based alerts. With the new update, the service enables even more thoughtful care.
Samsung’s new Care on Call feature allows users to more closely check on the status of the care recipient through a simple phone call. When a caregiver using the service calls the care recipient, a floating pop-up that displays key information appears before the call begins so that the caregivers can ask more meaningful check-in questions and respond accordingly.
SmartThings continuously monitors devices like Acs, air purifiers, dehumidifiers and humidifiers for indoor temperature, humidity and air quality. If unusual usage patterns are detected, the caregiver is notified, and they can remotely control the relevant device.
Family Care has made the Safety Patrol feature even more convenient. If the care recipient’s activity is not detected for a specified period of time, users receive a notification, and the feature can be remotely activated if the caregiver needs to take action. Using a camera built into the robot vacuum and built-in speaker, and a microphone, caregivers can handle an issue that occurs.
The Care Insight feature has been enhanced to provide even more actionable, long-term data within the Family Care service. It analyses temperature and humidity levels and can also track significant changes in activity levels and connected device usage compared to the previous week.
Expansion of Now Brief to TVs and Family Hub
With the launch of the Galaxy S26 series, Now Brief will support Home Security, Family Care and Pet Care, in addition to existing features that include Home Insight, Energy and the Sleep Environment report. Through Now Brief, users can access the useful information needed to care for themselves, their families and their homes at a glance.
Now Brief provides information such as home device status of the previous night, Home security updates based on lock doors, door sensors, and security mode, parents’ daily activity updates and dog-walking information.
Now Brief will soon roll out in phases to TVs launched in 2024 or later, as well as Family Hub refrigerators launched in 2021 or later.
Users will not need to manually launch Now Brief. If the feature is set up in advance, it will be automatically activated when they approach the TV, touch the Family Hub refrigerator screen or open and close the refrigerator door.
