If you’ve been relying on Secure Folder to hide apps and files, you might want to update your phone — a critical flaw has just been fixed.
Samsung has now patched a security flaw in its Secure Folder. The issue previously allowed anyone who had physical access to your Galaxy phone to take a look at your hidden apps and photos, and it has now been addressed by the South Korean company.
Samsung’s Secure Folder is a nice feature that allows you to easily hide sensitive files and apps on your Galaxy phone. The feature creates a separate, sandboxed (controlled, isolated environment) profile where you can move all your private content.
This isolated profile is then protected with a passcode, thus stopping any unauthorized users from getting into what you’ve placed inside. All that sounds quite good until you find out that there was a flaw in this feature, discovered earlier this year.
The flaw basically allowed anyone who manages to get physical access to your phone (like, stealing it, for example) to see which apps and photos you had hidden in that Secure Folder.
Luckily, though, the latest One UI 8 release is also bringing a patch for this security flaw.
Profiles on Android are sandboxed spaces with their own app data separate from the profile for the main user.
