{"id":217347,"date":"2026-02-25T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/galaxy-s26-ultras-privacy-display-is-the-best-new-feature-in-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:40:16","slug":"galaxy-s26-ultras-privacy-display-is-the-best-new-feature-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/galaxy-s26-ultras-privacy-display-is-the-best-new-feature-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S26 Ultra&#8217;s Privacy Display is the best new feature in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/25\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-demo-hands-on\/\">Galaxy S26 Ultra&#8217;s Privacy Display is the best new feature in years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/25\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-demo-hands-on\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/25\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-demo-hands-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 13:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones have felt somewhat stagnant over the past several years, with truly \u201cnew\u201d features being fairly rare. There\u2019s plenty of innovation in software, but on the hardware front, you\u2019re largely just looking at refinement and improvement of what\u2019s been around for ages. While Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S26 series might be one of the biggest offenders ever of leaning on refinement, the Galaxy S26 Ultra delivers one of the first truly new smartphone features in years with its new \u201cPrivacy Display,\u201d and I think it\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-705547\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The core idea behind Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra is to hide what\u2019s on your display from those around you, and it does that in a similar way to the privacy screen protectors that have been around for years. But, unlike those screen protectors, this is baked directly into the display.<\/p>\n<p>On its own, that\u2019s already super cool, and it works really well in person.<\/p>\n<p>When Samsung invited us out to San Francisco to check out the Galaxy S26 series, my first stop was a beeline for the Privacy Display demo. Available solely on Galaxy S26 Ultra, this is one of those features that is just impressive from the first time you use it. When activated, Privacy Display changes how the pixels in your display emit light, making it harder or near-impossible to view the display at an off-angle. At its default setting, it definitely works, but the contents of the display are visible at less-sharp angles. Samsung has a \u201cmaximum\u201d setting that takes this up a notch, and that setting makes it even harder to see the contents and narrows the field-of-view even further.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display Demo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5bznTIK4cc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the trade-off here?<\/p>\n<p>Privacy Display, somewhat like the privacy screen protectors, does make the whole display a bit less bright. When you toggle it on there\u2019s an immediate and noticeable difference in the brightness and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/25\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-demo-hands-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy S26 Ultra&#8217;s Privacy Display is the best new feature in years https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/25\/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-demo-hands-on\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/galaxy-s26-ultra-privacy-display-32.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217349,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217347\/revisions\/217349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}