NextRadio is/was an app for interfacing directly with your smartphone’s FM tuner. Unfortunately Google Play Store says that it will not work with Galaxy phone’s current operating system, only older phones. Every single one of the hundreds of other radio apps that I’ve found are all for connecting to streaming radio via wi-fi or plan data. Some of those may or may not have an option for using my phone’s tuner directly when offline- there’s not way to tell beforehand. Every single search for “offline” or “no connection” returns apps that allow you to download music from the streaming service and then play them back offline.
I simply cannot believe that NOBODY has written a third-party app for directly connecting to local broadcast radio via my smartphone’s FM tuner. Apparently there might be some for specific phone makes such as Motorola; but not for Samsung. I’ve found some sources that suggest that such an app is included in phones destined to be sold overseas, but not available in the United States. It’s ridiculous that I could listen to broadcast radio on my old Nokia flip phone that I gave up as hopelessly outmoded, but on my modern phone I can’t. Are they deliberately trying to make broadcast radio extinct?