{"id":627623,"date":"2026-10-11T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627623\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T20:24:27","slug":"samsung-smarttag-3-compatibility-android-u-turn-confirmed-tech-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627623\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung SmartTag 3 Compatibility: Android U-Turn Confirmed \u2013 Tech Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/722436\/samsung-galaxy-smarttag-review.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five years<\/a> now, Samsung has supplied its own AirTag-style tracker ecosystem known as SmartTag, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/2147617\/samsung-galaxy-smarttag-2-review.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we like a lot<\/a>. Much like Apple\u2019s own trailblazing GPS pucks, these are locked to the Samsung ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given that Samsung\u2019s phones run on Android, we\u2019ve always listed this limitation as our chief complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samsung, to its credit, appeared to have listened to such grumbles with the recent launch of the SmartTag 3, which ships with iPhone support, even if you won\u2019t get the full range of features available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/724188\/best-samsung-galaxy-phone.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy phones<\/a>. As for wider Android support, however\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/samsung-galaxy-smarttag.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342788\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCredit\">Michael Simon\/IDG<\/p>\n<p>Samsung loses track<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company initially assured outlets that \u201cSmartTag3 is compatible with other Android devices that have access to the Google Play Store to download the SmartThings and Samsung Find apps\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, in seeking further clarification, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=803X112721&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-smarttag-3-android-support-3720388\/&amp;xcust=4-0-3255812-1-0-0-0-0&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.techadvisor.com\/article\/3255812\/samsung-smarttag-3-compatibility-android-u-turn-confirmed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-subtag=\"4-0-3255812-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"androidauthority\">Android Authority<\/a> has discovered that no such wider compatibility is on the cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSmartTag3 currently connects to and works only with Galaxy devices among Android smartphones, and there are currently no plans to support other Android devices,\u201d a Samsung spokesperson told the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For around five years now, Samsung has supplied its own AirTag-style tracker ecosystem known as SmartTag, which we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[308058,342,111,139,69,306077,15594,145],"class_list":["post-627623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-languageen","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reintroduction","tag-storytypenews","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}