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 ...

With One UI 8, Samsung will ask you to re-enroll fingerprints for Secure Folder biometric access. Apps moved to your Secure Folder can now be easily hidden from the rest of your phone. Samsung’s ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2022, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...

Samsung Secure Folder had a critical flaw leaking hidden information due to a loophole. Samsung is planning to fix the issue by adopting Google's Private Space API. The fix may come with the release ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

One UI 8 update may fix the Secure Folder flaw, which allowed anyone with access to the Galaxy phone see sensitive information like apps, photos, and other files. This is despite the folder being ...

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 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 ...