We showed you earlier that someone was able to buy a Galaxy S26 Ultra super early by paying an enormous sum of money in Dubai. They have since gone on to showcase as much of this unreleased Samsung flagship phone as they possibly can, but there’s one feature that we were the most interested in seeing. We’re talking abut the new Privacy Display setting that Samsung started hyping for the S26 Ultra a few weeks ago.
GALAXY S26 ULTRA PRIVACY DISPLAY
The fresh owner of this unreleased Galaxy S26 Ultra is Sahil Karoul and he took to Instagram to show just how Privacy Display will work. It’s pretty simple, honestly, as there is a single toggle to turn it off or on and that gives you privacy.
As we talked about a few weeks back, Samsung has basically just built in a privacy screen, like you can currently buy as an accessory that attaches to your phone’s display. A software toggle enables this setting, which provides a shaded view of your screen when you aren’t looking directly at it. The idea here is that prying eyes won’t be able to look over your shoulder or off to the side to see (potentially private) content on your screen.
There are a number of settings involved here. For one, you can turn on Privacy Display and it’ll then give you a touch of shadow at off angles. However, you can drill down in for more settings, including a “Maximum privacy protection” that will “Make the screen even more difficult to view when Privacy display is on.” It does mention that with this activated, it may “affect normal viewing.”
There are also options for when it might automatically turn on, including with specific apps, for notification pop-ups, and if you are at a screen that requires PIN, pattern, or password.
I don’t know what else Samsung has in-store for the Galaxy S26 Ultra that will win us over, but this is a pretty useful new feature.
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18 responses to “Here’s the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Crazy New Privacy Display Feature”
That no one asked for. They could've given us bigger camera sensors for better pictures, or a bigger battery/updated battery tech, or even super duper fast charging (even though I still say 2+ day battery life > super duper fast charging) but instead we got something that an aftermarket screen protector has been proven to solve.
This is definitely a brand new feature that can actually be useful to many many people. Not sure where all the hate is coming from.
I wonder the same thing. This is actually something sort of innovative out of Samsung for a change. Dynamic privacy viewing is a great idea as long as it doesn't degrade standard viewing.
They sell screen protectors for a few bucks that do this on basically every phone. It's cool that this is built in. But I doubt enough people would care about this that sales will skyrocket
Yes there are screen protectors that do that but the huge advantage is being able to turn in on and off as needed (or in certain apps like banking apps)
Doesn't guarantee sales to skyrocket but it's definitely a truly new and innovative smartphone hardware feature in a sea of boring spec bumps and people complaining about camera bumps.
I’m always curious when I hear people say this: If the phones are so boring, what feature do you think would make them exciting again? There isn’t anything more I could want from my phone other than what it already does.
ive never done screen protectors on my samsung phones so i dont lose any functionality with the in screen fingerprint scanner. i've been wanting a privacy screen for a long time and really looking forward to this.
What content are you consuming to where you want the privacy feature?
Brown chicken, brown cow?
Furry stuffs
My wife always uses privacy screen protectors. She's a therapist, so will often have confidential information on clients pulled up on her phone. The extra privacy is helpful.
I have the Krabby Patty secret formula and like to look at it, so I don’t forget. You never know who’s looking.
The feature no one asked for…
With out a 60w charger
(Lame)
They are trying to market this as "the number 1 new thing" that's gonna get people to upgrade. This is such a low effort feature from Samsung that 99% of users don't even care.
We want: bigger batteries and innovative camera tech. Anything short of these is never going to be a reason to upgrade to Samsung. There's so many other phones globally that run laps around the S26U.
what phones run laps on this one? I'm looking to upgrade from S23 Ultra
The Vivo, Huawei & Xiaomi flagship joints, just to name a few.
I really don't care for this feature. I can't explain it but it's just not something that gets me hyped up for a new phone.