Samsung confirms one of the Galaxy S26 Ultra's most leaked features

Today Samsung is announcing "a new layer of privacy" coming soon "to keep everyday moments truly yours". See if the following quote from the official press release sounds familiar: "Samsung will soon unveil a new layer of privacy to shield your phone from shoulder surfing wherever you go. You’ll have the space to check your messages or enter a password on public transit without thinking twice about who might be watching".

That's right, Samsung has basically just confirmed the Galaxy S26 Ultra's oft-leaked privacy screen feature. This will be incredibly customizable. The company says you can choose to have it on for specific apps, or only when entering access details "for more private areas of your phone". You can also only protect "specific parts of your experience, such as notification pop-ups".

Samsung rightfully bills this as a "tailored approach", one that you can fine-tune or switch off entirely when you want to, rather than a blanket on or off solution that's provided by a privacy screen protector that you apply to your device's display. Samsung's solution, according to the rumors, is built into the screen itself, hence why it's so customizable.

This technology took over five years of "engineering, testing, and refining", but now it's finally (almost) here. More details will undoubtedly be officially available soon.