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Samsung’s Android 16-based One UI 8 will debut in stable with the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7 later this week. The major software upgrade, which comes in a timely manner after One UI 7 faced major delays, is expected to bring minor changes to the overall experience.
Samsung’s aim with the update seems to be to polish the Samsung device experience, with tools and features like the Now Bar and Now Brief, Live Captions, split-screen mulitasking, screenshots, and more to get usability upgrades.
We’ve known about those upgrades for a while now. However, what Samsung just announced hadn’t really been hinted at before.
The tech giant is introducing a new set of security and privacy features, and they’re set to go live with “upcoming Samsung Galaxy smartphones with One UI 8.” This includes a new architecture designed to make personalized AI-powered features safer, paired with an updated Knox Matrix, and quantum-resistant encryption for Secure Wi-Fi.
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We already know that Samsung is working on an Alert Center for One UI 8 — one that acts as a central hub for your privacy and security-related needs. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The feature is similar to Android 16’s Advanced Protection Mode, which groups several critical security features under one roof.
The hub will likely house the new tools and measures that Samsung just announced, though we’ll only know that for certain once we get our hands on one of Samsung’s new foldables. Regardless, the tech giant detailed what all the new measures do. Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), for reference, is a new architecture that will create encrypted, app-specific storage environments that will live within your device’s secure storage area. According to the tech giant, this will ensure “that each app can access only its own sensitive information and nothing more.”
The measure will ensure that insights that are used by AI tools like Now Brief remain secure on your device, and can only be accessed by the apps that need them.
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Elsewhere, Samsung’s Knox Matrix, which is essentially an ecosystem-level security measure for connected Galaxy devices, will now be able to automatically sign a compromised device out of your Samsung Account if it is flagged by any of your other devices. “When a device is flagged for serious risk — such as system manipulation or identity forgery — it is designed to automatically sign out of the Samsung Account, cutting off access to cloud-connected services to prevent threats from spreading,” wrote Samsung.
Lastly, Samsung’s Secure Wi-Fi, which is essentially a security feature that kicks in when you’re connected to a public or unsecured Wi-Fi network, is being upgraded with quantum-resistant encryption tech.
Secure Wi-Fi is now being upgraded with a new cryptographic framework5 designed to strengthen network protection against emerging threats, particularly those anticipated in the era of quantum computing.
Although quantum computing hasn’t fully been realized just yet, threat actors have already begun collecting encrypted data with the aim of cracking it open in the future. Samsung’s new measure essentially future-proofs data that might be at the risk of being leaked when you’re surfing the internet over an unsecured Wi-Fi network.
Whether Samsung decided to highlight all of these new measures at its Unpacked event later this week remains to be seen.
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