A YouTuber has shared a hands-on clip of the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display feature in action.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-hands-on-leak-3643064/
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-hands-on-leak-3643064/
17 Comments
Melonpoly@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 174d
Privacy screen meanwhile all your apps spy on you in the background.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 174d
Less consequences than the person on the bus side glancing on your screen and seeing spicy things by accident
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 174d
*Fewer
And that's easily resolved by not viewing spicy things in public.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 174d
Thanks for the correction.
Regarding the other part: Sometimes you also don't want less spicy things other people to see.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 174d
But that's makes it more fun
Edit: Apparently someone can't take a joke
Hond@piefed.social · 40 pts · 175d
brings me back to the good old days of shitty lcd screen viewing angles.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 174d
IPS still does that except it color shifts instead of becoming unviewable
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 23 pts · 174d
Turns out older phones with shitty displays that looked dark when viewing from sides were privacy phones all along.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 174d
TN or VA LCD.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 175d
That's stupid.
Buy a privacy screen protector and stop wasting battery juice.
Chozo@fedia.io · 11 pts · 174d
Yeah, but installing a screen protector is a "permanent" action. If you ever decide "I want to watch a video on my phone with my partner", you're pretty much out of luck unless you want to destroy your screen protector for a single 2-minute YouTube video. Making this a toggle is actually a really good idea IMO, as this gives users more agency over when their screen is private.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 174d
Screen protectors I saw and used were portrait-only, meaning landscape orientation had viewing angles unchanged. If by video you mean shorts/tiktoks/reels, they are short form and it won't hurt to give it to them for 20 seconds, or, you know, put it a bit further from your face so both your faces are in the right angle.
I don't see downsides in most phones coming with the kit in a box or pre-installed by default. There are apparently ways to make them cheap and shitty, like any phone accessory, but that's a question of quality, not the question of functionality. And I don't see why wider angles in portrait orientation are of any use.
tinsuke@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 174d
But then, what "innovation" manufacturers will hype to try to make you buy a new phone every year?
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 174d
I've been having this disrupting ideas for for years, and it seems that every year I (sadly) get one more:
Does the phone costs double? I don't care. Shut up and take my money!
osanna@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 174d
pretty much. it used to be that there would be sooooooooooo many changes that it made upgrading every year or two worth it. But now it's just gimmicks and stupid shit. it isn't necessary to upgrade every year or two anymore.
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 8 pts · 174d
Wow such privacy.
The call is coming from inside the Samsung.
TheNokMachine@pawb.social · 6 pts · 174d
I like the idea of being able to control whether or not you want a privacy display at any given time. Also, it's not show in the footage but apparently we'll be able to control where on the screen we want the privacy display to be enable and to enable it only for certains app.