Water Filter for the Samsung RF265AARS (DA29-00003G)

RF265AARS specifics — where the filter actually lives

Finding the bay is the easy part — this chassis puts it in the fresh-food compartment, typically the upper back wall in most French-door layouts, the same estate every French-door multi-door refrigerator in this family uses. The seat is a push-fit design: seat the cartridge square to the header until it clicks, and the retention clips do the rest.

Before you click buy, two things: the first removal takes more force than every later one, and skipping the reset leaves a change-light glaring at a perfectly fresh cartridge. Decode the plate and the parts question answers itself: Samsung uses it across the French-door multi-door range, which means shared cartridge economics — one media family, dozens of cabinet variants, all drinking from the same parts catalog. Trailing letters like RS denote trim and finish: stainless, panel-ready, handle variants. The water path is identical across them.

RF vs RS — what the prefix tells you

RF versus RS is the first fork in the parts catalog: French-door multi-door on the RF side, side-by-side on the RS side — the parts catalog runs the same cartridge across both. capacity 26 cu ft: a mid-to-full-size cabinet whose dispenser traffic sets the realistic change cadence.

Swap it in 5 minutes

• Pull the old cartridge straight out of the header — expect a small spill, not a flood.
• Align the new cartridge with the keyed slot; it only goes in one orientation.
• Push the cartridge home until the retention latch clicks.
• Run two gallons through the dispenser to flush carbon fines, then hold the filter-reset control until the status light clears.

What this filter takes out of your water

Coverage above lists what the standard addresses, not a performance claim for any specific cartridge — removal claims vary by certificate, so check the NSF listing for the exact part number you are buying.

RF265AARS filter questions