When are Samsung AR Doodle and Quick Measure being discontinued?

Both apps reach end of service on 31 December 2026. From that date they can no longer be downloaded or updated from the Galaxy Store. Samsung announced the date through the apps’ store listings rather than a press release.

Will Quick Measure stop working on my Galaxy phone?

Not immediately. Samsung says a copy already installed on your phone continues to work after 31 December 2026, though some functions may not behave correctly. Because Samsung will not maintain compatibility with future One UI releases, the app is likely to break at some point after a major software update.

Where do I find AR Doodle on a Samsung phone?

Open the Camera app, tap More, and select AR Zone. AR Doodle sits in that menu next to AR Emoji on phones that support it. On models with an S Pen you can draw with the stylus instead of a finger.

Is Samsung replacing AR Doodle and Quick Measure with anything?

No replacement has been announced. Samsung’s notice suggests it may return with improved services in future, but it has named no successor app and given no timeline. Third-party AR measuring apps on the Play Store remain the practical stand-in for Quick Measure.

Does this shutdown apply outside the United States?

Yes. The end-of-service notice appears on the Galaxy Store listings themselves rather than on a regional support page, so the 31 December 2026 date applies worldwide. There is no market where the apps stay available past that date.

Samsung Ends AR Doodle and Quick Measure on Dec 31, 2026

Samsung has set 31 December 2026 as the end date for two of its camera apps, AR Doodle and Quick Measure. After that day neither app can be downloaded or updated, and Samsung says it will not keep them compatible with future versions of One UI.

There was no press release. The notice went out the quiet way, as refreshed listings in the Galaxy Store that carry a termination date but no new version of either app. That is why the shutdown surfaced piecemeal over the past few days rather than all at once, with Quick Measure spotted first and AR Doodle confirmed this weekend.

Samsung Galaxy S10+ in white resting on its retail box, showing the rear camera array that included a depth-sensing lens — Quick Measure arrived in 2019 alongside the Galaxy S10 5G, the first Samsung phone with a rear depth-sensing camera. Image: Samsung Galaxy S10 by TGspot - (Galaxy S10), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What each app did

AR Doodle let you scribble on the live camera feed and have the drawing stick to whatever it was drawn on. Point the camera at a friend's face, draw a hat, and the hat stayed on their head as they moved. It lived inside the Camera app under More, in the AR Zone menu, and on S Pen phones you could draw with the stylus.

Quick Measure was the more practical one. You aimed the rear camera at an object and the app returned its dimensions, using the depth data from Samsung's rear depth-sensing camera to work out length, width and area. It shipped in 2019 with the Galaxy S10 5G, the first Samsung phone to carry that sensor, and Samsung distributed it through the Galaxy Store rather than baking it into every phone.

Both were showcase features in their day, demonstrated on stage as reasons to want the extra camera on the back. Depth sensors have since disappeared from most of Samsung's line-up, and the apps went with them. Reports over the weekend note the pair is already absent from some of the newest hardware, including the Galaxy Z Fold 8.

What happens to the copy already on your phone

Nothing, at first. Samsung's notice says an installed copy keeps working past the termination date, with the caveat that some functions may stop behaving correctly. The real deadline is the next big software update rather than 31 December itself: without compatibility work, an app that survives One UI 9 may break on One UI 10, and there will be no patch to fix it.

Anything you already made is safe either way. AR Doodle saves its results to Gallery as ordinary video files, so those clips are unaffected by the shutdown.

How to check whether you have them

Open the Camera app, tap More, and look for AR Zone. If AR Doodle is on your phone, it appears in that menu alongside AR Emoji.
Open the Galaxy Store and search for Quick Measure. If it is installed you will see an Open button rather than an Install one.
You can also check Settings, then Apps, and scroll for either name. Tapping through to the app info screen shows the installed version.

If you use either app and want to hold on to it, install it before 31 December. Downloads close on that date and there is no sideload path Samsung supports. Anyone who mainly used Quick Measure for rough dimensions around the house has plenty of third-party AR measuring apps on the Play Store to fall back on, and iPhone owners have Apple's own Measure app, but Samsung has not named a replacement of its own.

Where the shutdown applies

Everywhere. The end-of-service notice sits on the Galaxy Store listings themselves, not on a regional support page, so the 31 December date is global rather than tied to one market. Samsung's wording leaves the door open to bringing similar functionality back in a different form later, but no successor app has been announced and no timeline given.

This fits a longer pattern of Samsung trimming its own software in favour of Google's. The company has already moved Galaxy owners off Samsung Messages towards Google Messages, and its One UI releases have steadily folded first-party extras into shared Android features. For more on where One UI is heading, see our coverage of the One UI 9 beta rollout, and for another recent Samsung platform shift, our report on Tizen 10 reaching older Family Hub fridges.