00:00Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra battery life results with privacy display are in and it's not the
00:07result I was expecting. If you didn't know, privacy display is a new feature exclusive to
00:10the S26 Ultra that turns off its side-facing pixels, restricting viewing angles, making your
00:16screen look blacked out from the side so only you can see what's happening. So you'd think less
00:21pixels should also help increase battery life, right? Well, by default, with privacy display
00:27turned off and it's set to its adaptive refresh rate, the S26 Ultra gets 16 hours and 10 minutes
00:33of battery life. And then with privacy display turned on and adaptive refresh rate enabled,
00:38it gets 16 hours and 5 minutes. So basically the same results. But what about privacy display with
00:44maximum protection, which turns off even more side pixels, further restricting the viewing angle?
00:50At its adaptive refresh rate, it got 15 hours and 56 minutes, still probably within the margin of
00:56variance, but also our lowest battery life score. I honestly was expecting to get an extra 10 to 30
01:02minutes with privacy display and maybe an extra five or so minutes with maximum protection enabled.
01:07So yeah, I was pretty shocked, but let me know if these results surprised you.
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