{"id":256544,"date":"2026-05-27T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/samsungs-top-android-rival-might-copy-privacy-display-but-will-it-be-better\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:35:13","slug":"samsungs-top-android-rival-might-copy-privacy-display-but-will-it-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/samsungs-top-android-rival-might-copy-privacy-display-but-will-it-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s top Android rival might copy Privacy Display, but will it be better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-biggest-android-rival-privacy-display-3671436\/\">Samsung&#8217;s top Android rival might copy Privacy Display, but will it be better?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-biggest-android-rival-privacy-display-3671436\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-biggest-android-rival-privacy-display-3671436\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 04:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hadlee Simons \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A leaker has claimed that Xiaomi is working on a Samsung-like Privacy Display feature.<\/li>\n<li>The feature will apparently debut as part of the Hyper OS 4 update later this year.<\/li>\n<li>This strongly suggests that Xiaomi\u2019s feature is a software-based option, unlike Samsung\u2019s hardware-driven approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra debuted a Privacy Display feature earlier this year to deter shoulder surfers. We previously heard that other brands are working on similar functionality, and Samsung\u2019s biggest Android rival is apparently working on this feature.<\/p>\n<p>Tipster Yogesh Brar reports that Xiaomi is working on a Samsung-style Privacy Display feature. The leaker says it will debut as part of Xiaomi\u2019s Hyper OS 4 update later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_6g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Yogesh Brar Xiaomi Privacy Display\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Yogesh-Brar-Xiaomi-Privacy-Display.jpg 507w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Yogesh-Brar-Xiaomi-Privacy-Display-64w-22h.jpg 64w\" alt=\"Yogesh Brar Xiaomi Privacy Display\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Yogesh-Brar-Xiaomi-Privacy-Display.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_6g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_6g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fact that this is apparently arriving as part of Hyper OS 4 suggests we\u2019re looking at a software-based feature rather than Samsung\u2019s hardware-based option. However, it\u2019s also possible that Xiaomi is working on phones that actually have the requisite hardware for Privacy Display, and that HyperOS 4 will merely enable this hardware option. After all, we discovered Samsung\u2019s Privacy Display feature in software before it made a physical appearance. But it certainly seems like this is a software-driven solution.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"e_Kt\">What do you think of the S26 Ultra&#8217;s Privacy Display?<\/h3>\n<p>1 votes<\/p>\n<p>I love it<\/p>\n<p>0%<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea, but execution could be better<\/p>\n<p>0%<\/p>\n<p>I hate it<\/p>\n<p>100%<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy S26 Ultra uses Samsung screens with so-called Flex Magic Pixel technology. This allows the display\u2019s pixels to physically move, therefore narrowing the screen\u2019s viewing angle. Users can choose to narrow viewing angles for the entire screen or specific areas. This isn\u2019t possible with a software approach, which leads me to believe Xiaomi might pull a BlackBerry. BlackBerry\u2019s Android phones had a Privacy Shade feature that effectively blacked out all but a small, draggable area of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-biggest-android-rival-privacy-display-3671436\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s top Android rival might copy Privacy Display, but will it be better? https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-biggest-android-rival-privacy-display-3671436\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-in-hand-showing-Privacy-Display-quick-settings.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[170,70,72,86,118],"class_list":["post-256544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-blackberry","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256544"}],"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=256544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256546,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256544\/revisions\/256546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}