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The Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy display is kind of insane 👀

March 04, 2026 / 00:59

This episode discusses the new privacy display feature on smartphones, focusing on how it works and its impact on screen resolution.

The conversation highlights the functionality of privacy screen protectors, explaining how the built-in feature blackouts the display when tilted. It allows customization for specific apps, password fields, and notifications.

Key points include the technology behind the pixels, where half are wide emitting and half are narrow emitting. When the privacy feature is activated, the wide emitting pixels turn off, resulting in a lower resolution.

Listeners learn about the trade-offs between privacy and display quality, as well as the effectiveness of this feature in protecting sensitive information.

TL;DR

Smartphones now feature customizable privacy displays that reduce resolution to protect sensitive information.

Episode

0:59
00:00:00
You can turn on privacy display and now
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when I tilt it off access it blacks out
00:00:05
the phone. But you've seen those like
00:00:06
privacy screen protectors people put on
00:00:08
their phone sometimes where if you put
00:00:09
it at an angle it's pitch black. This is
00:00:11
built into the phone. Not only is it
00:00:13
very effective, but you can customize
00:00:15
exactly how it works. So you can have it
00:00:16
black out the whole display or you can
00:00:18
have it only black out certain apps or
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you can only have it black out password
00:00:22
fields and notifications. Half of the
00:00:25
pixels are regular wide emitting light
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pixels and half of the pixels have this
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sort of a focusing hardware on them
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where they're emitting just forward. And
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so when you turn this feature on, all of
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the wide emitting pixels turn off cuz
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it's an OLED and you're just left with
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the narrow emitting pixels.
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>> Oh, so it's not all pixels that have
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this like screen over it. It's just the
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random
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>> half of them. Got it.
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>> Does that mean your resolution is worse
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when it's on?
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>> Yes. Yes.
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>> I didn't think of that.
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>> So half your pixels are off. So half
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your resolution is gone
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>> and all of them are on when the privacy
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protector is off.

Episode Highlights

  • Privacy Display Feature
    A built-in privacy display blacks out the screen at certain angles, customizable for apps.
    “Not only is it very effective, but you can customize exactly how it works.”
    @ 00m 11s
    March 04, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • So half your pixels are off. So half your resolution is gone.
    The Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy display is kind of insane 👀

Key Moments

  • Pixel Functionality00:36
  • Resolution Impact00:52

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