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
Yes, there's no extra security provided by Secure Folder any more, since it leaves your data wide open unless you manually close it literally every single time you multi-task away or take a phone call. The question is, what can we do about it?
The Beta moderator at US Beta community said that this option was intentionally removed. It clearly left the app in a vulnerable situation intentionally. The Secure Folder is useless and not secure anymore.
We cannot do anything about it unless the Samsung developer team understands the concern. We have raised our voices in the beta community but it seems our voice is too low. If we send feedback, they will reply that they will send this to the concerned team for review and will consider in the next update which consideration rarely happens. That's it. If any influencer makes some noises about it, then it could be.
ive had my s24+ for a year, its my first samsung phone. Wth is up with them removing features. They copy ios in the dumbest ways such as grouped notifications, but then remove the unique/good features. They've also removed customizations.
Yeah this is just stupid and kills the main purpose of the secure folder. I dont know why samsung in the right mind did this but this should be reverted to what it was. Lock everytime i leave the app. Secure folder is unusable at this point cuz now it doesnt get the job done
