One of the few actual upgrades coming to the Galaxy S26 series is the “Privacy Display” expected to launch on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, and in continued teasers, Samsung seems to know exactly how you’ll be using it.
The “Privacy Display” coming to the Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to use native display tech to hide content on the display from onlookers. Like a typical privacy screen protector, this would mean you can see everything just fine, but details would vanish for those looking at an off-angle, such as over your shoulder. Samsung’s first teasers and early leaks also suggest that this won’t be an all-or-nothing feature, either, giving the user control to only obfuscate certain parts of the display such as notifications.
It sounds really cool, and it also seems Samsung knows exactly how a lot of people intend to use the feature.
In its latest teaser, Samsung shows someone riding on public transit, with a copy of their screen showing a “spicy” piece of literature. It’s not the first time Samsung has hinted at this use case, with another early teaser showing some… personal text messages. While there are obviously a ton of ways the “Privacy Display” will be useful, Samsung isn’t being too subtle about some other ways in which the feature will be handy.
The Galaxy S26 series is set to launch on February 25, but “Privacy Display” is said to be a Galaxy S26 Ultra exclusive.
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