TL;DR
- Samsung introduced Privacy Display with the Galaxy S26 Ultra to protect sensitive on-screen content.
- On the S26U, Privacy Display offers limited partial-screen support, able to protect notifications.
- At MWC, Samsung is showing off its next-gen Privacy Display, with more flexible partial-screen coverage.
It’s not too often anymore that we see a new smartphone do something that truly feels novel, but we’ve got to hand it to Samsung for bringing us just that with the Privacy Display on its Galaxy S26 Ultra. The software-switchable privacy filter is the sort of feature we never even realized we needed, protecting sensitive information on our screen from prying eyes. And as impressive as this initial effort is, this year at MWC in Barcelona, we’re already checking out some of the ways that Privacy Display will get even better in the future.
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