Terms of Use — Show Me
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Provided by: Mark Forler, Ontario, Canada
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1. What Show Me is
Show Me is a helper for people who find phones confusing. It puts a button on the screen. Press it and it explains what is on the screen out loud, answers a question you ask, or does a small thing you ask for: opening an app, pressing one button, writing a text, calling someone, or turning Samsung's Easy mode on or off.
By installing or using Show Me you agree to these terms. If you set Show Me up on someone else's phone, see section 4.
2. It can be wrong
Show Me uses speech recognition and an AI service to understand the screen and what you say. Both make mistakes. It can mishear a name, misread a screen, or give an explanation that is wrong or out of date.
That is why it is built to ask before it does anything that matters:
- it always asks before pressing a button, sending a message, or making a call, and only goes ahead when you say yes;
- it reads a message back to you before asking whether to send it, however the sending came up, including when you say "send it" yourself;
- it never dials a phone number you said as digits; it types the number in and you press call yourself;
- it does nothing on a locked phone except tell you to unlock it, so someone holding your locked phone cannot use it to call or text, and if the phone locks while it is waiting for your yes, it does not go ahead;
- it refuses buttons it can tell are for paying, buying, installing, deleting, sending money or giving permissions, and tells you to press those yourself. It may not recognise every one;
- it is told not to read verification codes out loud, and will not say one when you ask for a code, but this may not catch every code.
It cannot tell whose voice it hears. After it asks a question it listens for a short moment for your answer, and if someone nearby says "yes" it may take that as yours.
Two things it does without asking a second time, because you already asked for them:
- opening an app you named, because asking for it by name is the request;
- turning Easy mode on or off after you have said yes to it. Show Me then presses its own way through Settings to reach the switch, which is several taps from that one yes. It changes nothing else on the way.
Please listen to what it says before you say yes. You are responsible for what you confirm.
3. Do not rely on it for anything important
Show Me is a helper, not a safety device. Do not rely on it:
- in an emergency. Call 911 yourself;
- for medical, legal or financial decisions;
- to tell you whether a message, website or caller is genuine. It can describe what is on the screen, but it cannot tell you whether something is a scam.
Show Me will not enter passwords, and it does not read password boxes.
4. Setting it up for someone else
Most people who use Show Me will have had it set up by a family member. If that is you:
- Only install it on a phone with the permission of the person who uses that phone. Show Me can see their screen when they press the button, and can read their contacts if allowed. It must never be used to watch, track or read someone else's phone without their knowledge. Doing that may also be against the law where you live.
- Explain to them what it does, what it asks before doing, and how to turn it off (Settings > Accessibility > Installed apps > Show Me).
- Show Me keeps a count of how many times it has answered, and of the kinds of things it could not help with, shown on its setup screen. It also remembers family words it was taught, like which contact "my son" means. It never records what was said. See the privacy policy.
- The person whose phone it is can turn it off or uninstall it at any time, whoever installed it.
5. Your privacy
How Show Me handles what is on your screen, your voice and your contacts is set out in the privacy policy: the privacy policy. In short: it only reads the screen when you press the button, it listens for a short moment after asking you a question, your contacts never leave the phone, and our relay passes your request to Google without saving it.
6. Easy mode changes your phone, not just the app
If you ask it to, Show Me can turn on Samsung's Easy mode, which gives bigger icons and a simpler home screen. Two things you should know:
- It rearranges your home screen. Show Me says so before it does it.
- It is a setting of your phone, not of Show Me. You can ask Show Me to put your usual home screen back at any time, or do it yourself in Settings > Display > Easy mode. If you uninstall Show Me while Easy mode is on, your phone stays in Easy mode, because an app that has been removed cannot change anything back. Ask it to put your home screen back before you uninstall it.
7. What it costs
Show Me is free while it is being tested. No payment is taken and no card details are asked for. The plans screen inside the app shows what it is intended to cost later.
If paid plans start:
- the price will be the one shown in the app and on Google Play at that time;
- payment, renewals, cancellations and refunds would be handled by Google Play under Google's terms, not by us. You would cancel in your Google Play account;
- you will not be charged for anything without agreeing to it first.
To keep costs safe, Show Me has two daily limits: a rough one shared across everyone who uses it, and a high one on each phone in case of a fault. On a day a limit is reached, Show Me says so and works again the next day.
8. Other companies' services
Show Me relies on services it does not control: Google's Gemini (to understand screens), your phone's speech recognition (usually Google's), and your messaging and phone apps. Those services have their own terms and can change or stop working.
9. No promises that it always works
Show Me is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will work all the time, work on every phone, understand you correctly, or be free of mistakes, and we do not promise that it is fit for any particular purpose.
This does not take away rights you have by law. Under Ontario's Consumer Protection Act and other Canadian consumer laws, some protections cannot be signed away, and nothing in these terms tries to. Where a law gives you a right that cannot be excluded, that right applies, whatever the rest of this section says.
10. How far our responsibility goes
Show Me is a helper that can be wrong, and it asks before it does anything that matters. You decide what to say yes to, and you are responsible for what you confirm.
To the fullest extent the law allows:
- we are not responsible for what happens because you told Show Me to do something, for example a message sent to the wrong person, a call placed to the wrong contact, or a button pressed that you did not want pressed;
- we are not responsible for an explanation being wrong, incomplete or out of date, or for anything you did because of one;
- we are not responsible for the services Show Me relies on and does not control, including Google's Gemini service, your phone's speech recognition, your messaging and phone apps, and your phone's own settings;
- we are not responsible for indirect losses, such as lost data, lost money, lost time, or missed messages and calls;
- where we are responsible for something despite the above, our total responsibility is limited to the amount you paid for Show Me in the twelve months before it happened, which for free and beta users is nothing.
What is NOT excluded, and cannot be: death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or dishonesty, anything else the law does not allow to be excluded, and the consumer rights described in section 9. If any part of this section is found to go too far, the rest still applies.
11. Who may agree to these terms
You must be old enough to enter into a contract where you live to agree to these terms and to install Show Me on your own phone. If you are setting it up for someone else, section 4 applies to you.
12. Changes and stopping
We may update Show Me or these terms. If a change matters, the app will say so on its setup screen. You can stop using Show Me at any time by turning it off in Settings or uninstalling it. We may also stop providing Show Me, in which case it simply stops working and nothing of yours is held anywhere.
13. Law
These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and of Canada.