topic Re: Secure folder notifications in Mobile Apps & Services

Secure folder notifications

Members_UaCcLF4 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:46:40 GMT

What is the purpose of a secure folder notification? It advertises to unwanted users that there is something hidden and defeats the security purpose of it. It's like having a wall safe in my house and then not covering it with a picture or shelf to hide its existence. Does anyone from Samsung know why it is an unremovable feature?

Re: Secure folder notifications

keith30 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:53:23 GMT

There isn't any purpose for using a secure folder. You can disable it if you don't want to use it, I have.

Re: Secure folder notifications

BigUpKhaled — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:18:32 GMT

If you don't want to check your apps every minute, the content is hidden as it is so I don't see the issue with security.
You can turn off app notifications as normal on the secure folder copy of the app.

Re: Secure folder notifications

Anonymous User — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:33:20 GMT

If you don't want unwanted people to see it, hide it from the lock screen.

Re: Secure folder notifications

Members_ja3ehxu — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:01:53 GMT

I get it. The comments about this on reddit are hilarious. I think I never saw in my live a design so bad. It's distressing thinking about how a group of people look at this and think it is ok to publish this "functionality"

Re: Secure folder notifications

P298 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:20:28 GMT

This worked for me: https://youtu.be/7H1ocp8EdUk

Re: Secure folder notifications

Brokenhearted87 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:34:03 GMT

Has anyone seen this notification!?

Re: Secure folder notifications

Members_bsraEro — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:53:42 GMT

In my case (S24+, OneUI 6.1, Andoid 14, Know 3.10) the notifications show the name of the app when the secure folder is locked!
And when the secure folder is unlocked, the notifications don't show the name of the app.
So it's completely reverse to what one would expect.

Anyone has noticed this?

Re: Secure folder notifications

P298 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:36:52 GMT

It's quite easy to disable these Secure Folder alerts:

How to Stop Secure Folder Notifications Permanantely on Samsung Phone (2025) - YouTube

Re: Re: Secure folder notifications

LawnRoomba — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:12:05 GMT

Yesss, thank u for flagging this, I thought I was going insane!

The notification that @Brokenhearted87 got, is literally what I want on my S24+: when the secure folder is locked, all sensitive info should be hidden, which includes which app sent the notification.

It's easy to just disable notifications, but I'd like to know when something needs my attention, but I want to be the only one that knows _what_ needs my attention, if that makes sense?