Making a welcome change from the constant Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge leaks is the announcement from Samsung of a host of new features and new functionality that is present in its Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. You didn’t really expect that Samsung wouldn’t put its own, inimitable stamp on Marshmallow did you? Join us after the break for more details on the added features.
According to the announcement, Samsung’s built-in browser has received a number of improvements in security, performance and functionality. Samsung’s Internet 4.0 now has a ‘Secret Mode’, which allows the user to navigate the web without leaving a trace. This means that cookies won’t be stored on the device, and web history won’t reveal what you have been looking at surreptitiously. Similarly, passwords and auto-fill data will not be stored either. Secret Mode is secured by fingerprint authentication, keeping it hidden from prying eyes.
“For instance, while using messaging apps, users can access their photos and videos and send them to whoever they are talking to, without exiting the messaging program. They can even take new photos with the in-app camera and share them right away”
It isn’t just photos that can be accessed, URL’s can be visited, and media files played, all without leaving the original app one was using. I suspect this will work something similar to Samsung’s multi-window function, in that third-party app developers will have to enable the function in order for it to be compatible with Cross App.
Another added function is called App Standby mode which determines if an app is actively being used or not. This is a different if similarly purposed function to Marshmallow’s native Doze function.
For those of us whose Samsung devices are yet to receive the Marshmallow update, which is pretty much all of us, there’s no word when this will come to pass. Still, at least, there are a couple of added features to look forward to when it eventually does arrive.
Source: Samsung
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