Samsung has just teased what it calls “a new layer of privacy,” set to arrive soon on its devices, aimed at keeping your everyday phone use away from prying eyes. In its official announcement, the company describes it this way: Samsung will introduce a privacy feature that shields your screen from shoulder surfing, wherever you are, so you can reply to messages or type in passwords on a bus or train without worrying about who might be staring over your shoulder.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because these lines up almost perfectly with the long-rumoured privacy display for the Galaxy S26 Ultra. In effect, Samsung has now all but confirmed that this leaked feature is real.
According to Samsung, this new privacy layer will be highly customizable. You’ll be able to enable it only for specific apps, or just when you’re entering sensitive information or accessing secure areas of your phone. It can even be restricted to certain parts of the interface—such as notification pop-ups—rather than dimming or obscuring the entire screen at all times.
Samsung is positioning this as a more flexible, user-centric solution than traditional privacy screen protectors, which are essentially an all-or-nothing fix stuck onto your display. In contrast, the company’s approach reportedly integrates directly into the screen hardware itself, which enables such granular control.
Samsung says this technology has been under development for more than 5 years, undergoing extensive engineering, testing, and refinement. Now that it’s nearing launch, we should expect Samsung to share more concrete details and a full breakdown of how it works in the near future.
