Samsung will implement the screen privacy function in the Galaxy S26 to avoid prying eyes

Samsung has announced that it will implement its new screen privacy feature in the ‘smartphone’ model Galaxy S26 to protect sensitive user data from prying eyes in public spaces.

Last January, Samsung announced the incorporation of this type of technology in its Galaxy smartphones, which allows users to increase the privacy of their phones. obscuring the side view of the screens so that they are visible only from the front.

In a video published this Saturday on YouTube, the company has shown an example of how this new security layer works: A girl is reading a novel with romantic content on public transport. Next to him, another passenger looks curiously at the phone.

Faced with this situation, the girl activates the ‘zero-peeking privacy’ (privacy from glances) and the screen darkens, thus preventing the other passenger from seeing what is on it. Then the message appears: “Can your phone do this?”

The new privacy feature has been in development for more than five years and has resulted in a fusion of ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ that protects “without interfering” in the actions of users. In this sense, it adds to the layers of protection of Galaxy devices, from ‘dedicated security hardware such as Knox Vaulteven ecosystem defenses such as Knox Matrix.

Samsung has announced at the end of the video itself that this new screen privacy feature will arrive next February 25, when the Galaxy S26 series is expected to be introduced.