A flaw has been discovered in Samsung’s Secure Folder feature, which allows anyone to view the apps and photos stored in it. This is possible because Samsung’s Secure Folder is set up like a Work ...

Samsung’s Secure Folder feature currently exposes apps and media by over-relying on Android’s Work profile. A new leak shows that One UI 8 will likely adopt Android’s Private Space API to fix this ...

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Certain Samsung Galaxy devices had a security flaw allowing access to Secure Folder contents. Google-designed components in Android lacked proper protection for old "work" profiles. With One UI 8, ...

If you have also come across instances when Samsung’s Secure Folder didn’t protect your data as you’d have expected, there’s some good news. Samsung could finally fix that flaw with One UI 8, using ...

The best Samsung app you’re not using is the one designed to protect everything you value.

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One UI 7’s Secure Folder had a security flaw: the photo picker can access “secured” files from outside in certain conditions. For example, it could expose unencrypted media from the Secure Folder when ...

If you have photos and videos on your Android phone that you don't want friends and family to stumble upon, you can secure them in a locked folder in the Google Photos or Samsung Gallery app. The ...

As Samsung describes it, Secure Folder allows you to have a second phone inside your device by allowing a second instance of apps to run independently. In theory, this should keep your most sensitive ...