Samsung’s Secure Folder allows Galaxy users to hide their sensitive apps or files from phishers or attacking elements by keeping the items safely hidden in a new profile; however, various complaints occurred, which suggested that Secure Folder is not protecting the apps or media publicly, breaching the security. This seems to have received a fix with One UI 8.
Basically, a few days back, it was reported that a weird bug happened to attack Secure Folder protection mechanism with One UI 7 update and therefore user’s photos and other sensitive files got displayed on the auto stories feature, which was breaching the entire privacy.
Meanwhile, a new leak shared by DevOflpos via X, suggests that Samsung appears to be working on a potential method of adopting the Secure Folder’s Private Space API on One UI 8; rather than using the work profile.
Substantially, photos and apps are automatically stored within the Secure Folder’s work profile due to the mechanism on which it works. Even though the items are inside the Secure Folder it tends to get exposed outside as certain specific components, such as Android photo picker can still see these hidden apps and photos in the work profile, thus leading to a privacy breach.
Therefore, that’s where Samsung seems to be adopting Android 15’s Private Space API with One UI 8 that will eventually prevent Secure Folder from leaking the user’s private or sensitive apps or photos publicly to everyone.
Currently, Samsung’s One UI 8 is still in its early development phase and the Android 16 is all set for the stable release; Galaxy family need to wait for a while till Samsung completes the One UI 7 stable rollout and pushes the One UI 8 beta builds officially.
