CloseBy is Samsung Internet’s Physical Web beacon service. It is accessed via the Extensions menu:
While enabled, you may receive a silent notification when a nearby beacon is detected. You can also manually scan by tapping CloseBy on the Extensions menu:
Criteria
The URL must be advertised in the Eddystone-URL format. Furthermore, the page that the URL resolves to:
- Must be served over HTTPS
- Must not be blocked by robots.txt
- Must not include malicious contents / malware
- Must be found and reachable, without timing out
- Must not have an SSL certificate error
- Must not be empty
Browser support
CloseBy was introduced in Samsung Internet v5.4.
