Overview
- One UI 9 Beta 4 introduces PiP‑specific Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra so the privacy filter covers only the small picture‑in‑picture video box rather than the whole screen.
- The feature is rolling out to enrolled testers through the Samsung Members channel and has been shown in demo videos and seen by at least one reviewer on a build ending in BZG4.
- Users must enable Privacy Display for each app that should be protected and must not have global Privacy Display turned on for the whole panel for PiP shielding to work.
- The Privacy Display effect is a panel‑level angle filter built on Samsung Display’s Flex Magic Pixel technique, so it still reduces apparent brightness and can be bypassed at some off angles.
- Tech coverage says the change improves real‑world usability by removing the need to dim the entire screen for a small PiP window and reports have suggested Samsung may expand the hardware privacy feature to future Galaxy models.