Samsung's New Security Update Ensures Better Privacy

Samsung’s new security update comprises two new features for Galaxy smartphones and tablet users. The tech company is now adding features such as Samsung Cloud Enhanced Data Protection and Quick Share’s Private Sharing to enhance users’ security.

Samsung’s New Security Update and its Features

Samsung’s Cloud Enhanced Data Protection ensures that users’ data stays safe and secure in Samsung Cloud. This feature will be available from the Galaxy S24 onwards and provide users with more security when data has been synced with Samsung Cloud.

This feature decreases the loss of data through E2EE (end-to-end encryption), which makes the data accessible only to the users themselves. Additionally, users will be provided with a recovery code for the prevention of data loss. This recovery code can be used in case the user loses their device.

Users can access the Samsung Cloud Enhanced Data Protection by going into Settings of the Samsung Cloud App and clicking on Security and Privacy. Users will then have to click on More Security Settings choose the Enhanced Data Protection and finally switch on the Encrypt Backup Data and Encrypt Synced Data. However, this feature is only available on devices that use the Enhanced Data Protection feature.

Samsung has also introduced Quick Share’s Private Sharing. This feature ensures privacy and security while sharing files on Quick Share. It should be noted that this feature only functions between two Samsung devices.

Users will be able to share files only with contacts that they have selected. Furthermore, once the files have been shared, the recipient cannot share the files with other people. Screenshotting the files has also been blocked when using this feature.

To access this feature, users can turn this mode on inside Quick Share. Once it has been turned on, users can share files up to 200MB.

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