In the heat of the moment, you sent a nude photo and later regretted it. With a new feature from Samsung, you can avoid this in the future.
With Samsung mobile phones you have the possibility to send your nude pictures safely. (Source: AllaSerebrina / depositphotos.com)
Everyone knows it or knows someone who has experienced it: you send a nude photo and later regret it. Either immediately afterwards because it was accidentally sent to the wrong person, or because the person who received it shared it during or after the relationship (also known on the internet as revenge porn).
Samsung now offers a solution in the form of a feature that could take away your guilty conscience. It is an extension for the company’s own data transfer tool QuickShare. This allows files to be transferred between Samsung devices – even over long distances. The new Private Sharing function means that you will have permanent control over your shared data in the future – even after sending.
How Private Sharing makes your sexting safer
With the function “Private Sharing” you can share your saucy pictures temporarily without the recipients being able to download and share them from the Quick Share application. In addition, according to Samsung, it is not possible to take a screenshot within the application. Screenshots are generally considered a workaround for temporarily shared photos.
But how is it possible to prevent another device from taking screenshots of your nude photos? What may sound like nonsense or witchcraft at first is possible through in-app coding such as “FLAG_SECURE” is possible. You may have already seen such a screenshot lock in banking apps.
With private sharing, you can set how long the other person can view your files – before and after sending. If necessary, you can revoke the other person’s viewing rights with immediate effect.
How to send a photo via Private Sharing
- Open the photo on your Samsung phone.
- Select the “Share” option and “Quick Share”.
- In Quick Share you open the menu using the icon with the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Select the option “Turn on private sharing”.
- You can then select an expiration date and the contact you want to send the photo to.
On its own website, Samsung states that Samsung phones with the Android 10 operating system or higher can use the Private Sharing function. However, Private Sharing only works between Samsung phones. Of course, there is also the risk that a photo of the image will be taken with a second device. The new Samsung function cannot prevent this.
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