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
Efectivamente, la opción de bloquear automáticamente la carpeta segura al salir de la aplicación, desapareció con la actualización de One UI 8, ojalá samsung lo vuelva a poner en las opciones
Earlier my phone had OneUi7, then i received an update for ONEUI 8, after updating to it, I also have the same problem. Samsung needs to fix this. They have removed option to automatically lock secure folder
Samsung advised me that this is a feature of one ui8, and it is not a fault. You cam n lock manually, after 5, 10 minutes etc, when phone restarts or when screen turns off. This according to Samsung is there on purpose by design.
Did they say why they removed the option to look immediately when you exit? Coz if anything, secure folder now is more compromised from a security perspective. It does not make sense as to why they removed such an important feature. EVERYONE IS COMPLAINING
How can a billion dollar company, with supposedly great devs, take a perfect simple solution out? Why on earth did Samsung think I would rather click 2 times everytime I leave an app to lock it instead of autolock (that worked perfectly fine)? Are they just incompetent or plain dumb? Unbelievable. A secure folder that is not secure anymore. You should as well change the name to Stupid Folder now. What a joke, Samsung.
I am on Android version 16 running Samsung One UI version 8. It now seems definitively clear that the missing setting I need to lock the folder "each time you leave an app" has been removed by Samsung on on UI 8,making Secure Folder much less secure. This setting was present on one UI 7. I had been hoping that I was overlooking something and perhaps it had been moved to a different part of the settings which is why I messaged this forum but unfortunately this does not seem to be the case. Boo Samsung.
