Secure folder doesn't autolock upon exit (Fold 7 / UI 8)

[dipst]

Hi all. New Fold 7 owner. When I exit Secure Folder back to home, I can reenter it without having to reauthenticate. Anybody who picked up my phone could just get straight into secure folder. I can find no setting to require reauthenticatation after leaving secure folder. On my Fold 5, it locked automatically after exiting. This issue completely compromises the security of a secure folder. It isn't practical to manually lock it every time before exiting since I frequently switch between apps inside and out of secure folder. Am I missing something or is this another Samsung issue?

EDIT I've just checked on my fold 5 and I can see that in the "auto lock secure folder"part of settings, on fold 5 you can set it to lock each time you leave an app whereas on fold 7 that option is no longer available... meaning that when you leave secure folder or an app, you or anybody on your fold 7 can get straight back into secure folder unless you have remember to manually lock it. This really is moronic and makes no sense at all. It won't be possible to remember to manually lock secure folder on the phone where you are constantly multitasking and it's only makes life harder and make the phone less secure. Please tell me it has been moved somewhere else but it really looks like the usual utterly moronic Samsung shenanigans. Assume this pointless stupid and unwelcome change is a feature of the updated software. Sorry for sounding so negative but this sort of thing is endlessly disappointing 

[hehdhe]

Can you please bring it back or I will leave the samsung!!

[Scanner]

I have only just noticed this after upgrading my S25U to OneUI 8. This is a shocking security hole created by Samsung. Why on earth would they think this was a good idea? Probably for the same reason they thought removing Bluetooth from the S Pen was also a great idea.

Please can someone escalate this to Samsung and more importantly, give us some feedback about it. Don't treat your customers like peasants. 

[dipst]

Why don't you escalate it and give feedback to the rest of us? Nothing will ever change for the better without proactive action!

[Scanner]

Because I was addressing my post to moderators or those in this forum that might have contacts within Samsung. 

What a waste of time your post was. Have you already escalated it?

[dipst]

Ah OK makes sense. Nope. I've no contacts at Samsung and dealing with their ineffectual front line staff and bots during the sales process puts me off bothering

[AndreiAND]

Hey, i have noticed another big security problem regarding banking apps similar with Secure Folder app. If i exit any banking apps that i have, for exemple Revolut, the app will remain open and i can enter it without authentification!!! This is not gooood! Anybody can try to see if I am right? Thanks!

[Scanner]

Yes I can confirm the same. My Santander app remains open in the background while I switch to other apps. However the screen is "blanked" when I bring up the task switcher. It only shows the screen contents when I re-select the banking app. But I get what you're saying... the app does remain open. Although I thought it was up to the app itself to have this option and not the handset operating system. 

[masazr313]

Why have Samsung removed the option "Each time I leave the app" to lock secure folder. No one is going to click the three dots and use the lock and exit option each time. Why mess with something that was working perfectly fine. And why cant the option "lock and exit" be moved under "auto lock secure folder" each time I minimise or exit the folder.

[GalaxyS24Tbc]

How to i revert to one UI 7? I can't be locking secure folder manually each time

[izephyr]

I have a solution for this issue, Automatic locking of secure folder. If anyone is interested, please DM me with your play store account's email address.