Samsung has taken time out of its busy schedule of leaking enormous amounts of information about the upcoming Galaxy S26 phones in order to put out a direct teaser for, er, the Galaxy S26 range.
Specifically, Samsung has released a very short teaser video for the Galaxy S26 Ultra‘s Privacy Display. Essentially working like a privacy-filtering screen protector, Privacy Display makes sure that snooping busybodies can’t see when you’re reading spicy fiction on the train.
Keep everything safe, even your reading preferences
Yes, really. That’s exactly how Samsung frames it in its teaser video.
The short video shows a young woman sat on the subway, while she scrolls through an e-book chapter that starts in a somewhat … spicy way. Noticing the content of the chapter and presumably worried someone else might see it — partially because of the quite frankly enormous font size she’s using — she toggles on the Privacy Display feature, fading out the screen overlay to black.
It’s a bit of fun, and honestly, we love it. Because it shows exactly hows this feature is likely to be used. The Privacy Display is one of the upgrades set to come to the Galaxy S26 Ultra, and it works like a privacy filter you’d get on your laptop or smartphone.
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Viewed from front-on, the display works as usual. But if seen from an angle, like if you were sat in a seat next to the smartphone owner, you’ll only see a black screen. It makes the feature perfect if you’re looking at confidential documents, want to keep bank details private, or, as in this video, if you’re reading something you’d rather others didn’t see.
It’s thought that only the S26 Ultra will be getting this feature, but it’s also rumored that users will be able to selectively dim parts of the screen, and not have to protect all of it at once.
Quite how this is achieved isn’t known, but it’s great that the privacy filter can be toggled on and off. One of the major downsides of a physical privacy filter is that it heavily affects viewing angles, so it’s harder to show people your screen if they’re not dead-on to it. Being able to turn it off solves this problem.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 range doesn’t seem as if it will be replete with new features, but we’re happy that ideas like the Privacy Display are coming to fruition. Even if all you use it for is to hide your taste in literature, well, that’s one less thing to worry about.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 range is expected to be revealed at the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25.