Samsung Rolling Out Lockscreen 'AI Shopping Experience' To Galaxy Phones Starting Today

Starting today, Samsung is rolling out a new “AI shopping experience” on the lockscreen of select Galaxy phones, but there’s some good news.

Samsung has partnered with Glance, a company best known for building a lockscreen experience for Android that, among other things, shows ads. This new partnership is specifically around the Samsung Galaxy Store and will use generative AI to improve “commerce and content discovery” as well as showing “trending content, local events, and social media moments.”

Glance AI will start rolling out to Samsung devices starting today in the United States, with the experience – thankfully – being “fully opt-in.” This implies it will be disabled by default, but it doesn’t rule out a pop-up or other means of trying to get users to turn the feature on. Glance explains:

Available as both an app and a lockscreen experience, Glance AI is a fully opt-in experience. It trains itself on a single selfie or an image from the image gallery to generate hyper-real images of consumers in outfits best suited for them. As users visualize themselves in various outfits, they can make real-time purchase decisions with just a tap. The recommendations and order fulfillment are driven by Glance AI’s extensive partnership with more than 400 leading brands and retailers in the US and beyond. The app further allows users to place the feature directly on their lock screen for easy access and the ability to save each look as either their lockscreen wallpaper or download to share across their network.

This new feature is apparently rolling out to Galaxy users in the US “starting today” in a staged rollout. It will be available to “100%” of users within 30 days. The rollout will start with the following Galaxy devices, but will expand to “the rest of device models” later on:

Galaxy S25/+/Ultra
Galaxy S24/+/Ultra
Galaxy S24 FE
Galaxy S23/+/Ultra
Galaxy S23 FE
Galaxy S22/+/Ultra

There’s no word on how this is rolling out, but it seems likely that it’s tied to a Galaxy Store update. No images of what Glance AI looks like on Galaxy devices were provided, but a version of the Glance AI app – a “new custom app” is coming to Galaxy devices specifically – is already available in the Play Store with a focus on AI-powered clothing shopping that utilizes images of the user to find outfits available for purchase.

The Glance website also shows what lockscreen integration looks like on other devices.

We’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for the update to see what Glance AI entails on Samsung Galaxy devices – get in touch if you see it go live on your phone.