Samsung is giving the Galaxy Ultra its biggest display upgrade in years - and it's ingenious

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• A confirmed Samsung diagnostic allows its phones to artifact retired parts of the surface erstwhile viewed astatine an angle.
• The privateness show diagnostic volition apt debut with the Galaxy S26 bid astatine Unpacked.
• Users tin customize which parts of the surface are blocked and crook the diagnostic disconnected altogether.

We're inactive waiting for Samsung to denote erstwhile and wherever its adjacent Unpacked event volition happen, but a caller diagnostic teaser is already getting maine excited for the expected Galaxy S26 bid and One UI 8.5. 

There's nary authoritative sanction for the diagnostic yet, truthful let's telephone it Privacy Display -- and it's going to beryllium a large woody for some regular consumers and concern users.

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That's due to the fact that Privacy Display efficaciously blocks retired parts of the telephone surface erstwhile viewed astatine an angle, preventing snoopers and nosey passersby from seeing indispensable information. Think privateness surface protector, but built into the telephone and overmuch much customizable.

How it works

How Samsung achieves this is done pixel-level airy control, adjusting its OLED emanation truthful that airy lone shines toward the idiosyncratic erstwhile facing straight astatine the telephone screen. As you cookware near and right, the portion of the Privacy Display that you tin acceptable to artifact delicate notifications, 2FA codes, and much fades to black.

Notably, the diagnostic wouldn't trim the phone's wide brightness oregon colour depth, dissimilar a physical privateness surface protector.

Here's a rendering by manufacture expert Ice Universe of however Privacy Display works:

What Samsung hasn't confirmed yet

While there's a batch to beryllium excited astir with Privacy Display, immoderate questions stay unanswered, including what models volition enactment the feature. Considering Samsung's rumored accumulation plan for the Galaxy S26 bid leans favorable toward the Ultra model, I wouldn't beryllium amazed if Privacy Display launches exclusively connected the company's flagship phone.

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There's besides the question of however overmuch Samsung volition let users to screen up with the feature; whether they'll beryllium capable to crook connected Privacy Display connected a per-app basis, oregon lone with precedence notifications. Expect much clarity erstwhile the Galaxy S26 bid launches.

Bottom enactment (for now)

Such applicable information upgrades should person wide appeal, whether you're a commuter connected a crowded bid each greeting oregon a concern idiosyncratic handling confidential spreadsheets and emails. Since Privacy Display is integrated with Samsung Knox, IT departments tin besides enforce the diagnostic connected corporate-managed devices.