{"id":318546,"date":"2026-03-02T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318546\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:38:11","slug":"samsungs-digital-home-key-lets-you-use-your-phone-as-your-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318546\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s Digital Home Key lets you use your phone as your key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Just days after showing off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/884337\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Galaxy S26<\/a>, Samsung is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-wallet-launches-digital-home-key-smart-door-locks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally rolling out the ability<\/a> for users to unlock their home with a tap of their phone or by simply approaching their door. The new feature, called Digital Home Key, will live inside Samsung Wallet and is powered by the Aliro smart home standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/3\/24261118\/samsung-digital-home-key-smart-door-lock-aliro-uwb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first teased its Digital Home Key feature in 2024<\/a> and said the feature would be available in 2025. That didn\u2019t pan out, as the CSA\u2019s Aliro standard \u2014 which will let users unlock smart locks with any phone \u2014 only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/885002\/aliro-smart-lock-standard-launches-apple-google-samsung-promise-support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrived in February of this year.<\/a> The new standard uses near-field communication (NFC) for its tap-to-unlock technology. It also supports ultra-wideband (UWB), giving users the ability to unlock their door as they approach and without pulling out their phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">To add a Digital Home Key to your wallet, you\u2019ll need to set up a compatible smart lock through SmartThings using Matter. Only some Galaxy smartphones support both NFC and UWB, including the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and up, as well as the Galaxy S22 Ultra and up. You can view the full list of compatible devices on <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.samsung.com\/wallet\/references\/devicecompatibility.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days after showing off the Galaxy S26, Samsung is finally rolling out the ability for users to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,43,1523,13905,920,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-318546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-smart-home","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}