We live in interesting times when it comes to Android. While Google’s Pixel has raced ahead with new security features through Android 16, Samsung is edging ever closer with One UI 8, seeking to repair its One UI 7 disaster. And this month, Pixel users drew a blank security update for the first time, while for Samsung it was business as usual.

Android 16 brings major security and privacy enhancements to Android, especially with Google’s new Advanced Protection Mode, which restricts dangerous connections and sideloading amongst other things. But for Samsung it also fixes an extraordinarily awkward mistake, with user data leaking from its Secure Folder.

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This mistake stems from Samsung launching its own secure folder versus adopting Google’s standard version of the same. Samsung adopted a work profile for its security repository, which enabled some other functions on the phone to see what apps and some media in the folder itself, potentially leaking that externally.

With Samsung telling users “one of the most useful tools on your Galaxy device is the Secure Folder, where you can store everything you want with maximum security,” when news broken of this leak, it was critical it was fixed quickly.

And One UI 8 does exactly that. It upgrades Secure Folder with independent security to ensure that shared biometric access to a phone cannot compromise this repository, and it also hides the folder, its apps and its data from view.

This “kill switch” quick setting, as it has been called, is akin to an on/off button for Secure Folder, and enables everything to be quickly hidden with just a click. But it now turns out that the kill switch is more critical than we thought.

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Per Android Authority, while Samsung has fixed the data leakage with a new private profile, “this protection is only active when you fully hide the Secure Folder, not just close it.” This removes the icon but also “encrypts the data inside, which stops its apps from running and prevents them from sending notifications.”

It seems an oversight that what should be basic protection requires users to fully hide the Secure Folder, but if it works then it fixes the problem. But this means Galaxy users will need to get used to hitting that kill switch more often than they might expect.