Screen Privacy Made Real on Samsung’s New Flagship

Samsung has added a new way to keep phone screens private without any stickers or special protectors. The feature is called Privacy Display and it works straight from the phone’s hardware. When you look straight at the screen, everything stays clear. If someone turns their head, the display darkens and most of the light stops leaking out. The trick uses special pixels that shine only forward. In normal mode the phone mixes wide‑angle and narrow‑pixel light so you can see from many angles. When Privacy Display is turned on, the wide‑angle pixels dim a lot and only the narrow ones stay bright. You can turn it on from the quick menu or set it to work automatically for certain apps, when you type a PIN, or whenever a notification pops up.There are two levels: a normal dimming level and a maximum one that makes side‑viewing almost impossible. But the stronger setting can also make it harder to read from a normal distance, so you might want to use it only when needed. Only Samsung’s newest Ultra model currently has this hardware feature. It is the first phone on the market to do so, although other manufacturers are testing similar tech. Samsung said they will watch how people use it and may add the feature to future phones if it is well received. The Ultra also comes with a big 6. 9‑inch screen, a fast processor, and new camera upgrades. The privacy feature is one of the many ways Samsung tries to make its flagship more useful and secure.