OnePlus’ upcoming Privacy Watermark feature could protect your documents from misuse (APK teardown)

The company is also working on an auto-pixelate feature that pixelates sensitive information in images.

OnePlus’ upcoming Privacy Watermark feature could protect your documents from misuse (APK teardown)
OnePlus 12R display
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  • Strings within the latest Android 15 Beta preview for the OnePlus 12 include a reference to a new Privacy Watermark feature. This feature could go live with Oxygen OS 15.
  • This feature claims to let you add a privacy watermark to your document images to prevent their potential misuse.
  • Separately, strings have also been spotted for an auto-pixelate feature that pixelates private information.

OnePlus is participating in the Android Partner Program, as part of which the company has released an Android 15 Beta preview build that app developers and enthusiasts can install on their OnePlus 12. While this release does not completely represent all the features that Oxygen OS 15 (based on Android 15) would be bringing to OnePlus devices, we can learn of some of the upcoming features thanks to code snippets. One such code snippet relates to Privacy Watermark, an upcoming privacy feature on OnePlus smartphones (and possibly those from OPPO and Realme too).

OnePlus enthusiast 1NormalUsername spotted these new strings in the Settings app, documenting an upcoming “Privacy Watermark” feature that will be available through the OnePlus Photos app: