Samsung’s new foldables are borrowing this Galaxy S26 USB trick

TL;DR Samsung introduced USB webcam support with this year’s Galaxy S26 series. The feature now returns on all three of the company’s new foldables. After connecting to your PC over USB-C, tap your charging notification to activate webcam mode.

Samsung’s new foldables are finally official , and while this year everyone’s talking about the extra-wide hardware form factor debuting as the Galaxy Z Fold 8 , there are nearly just as many reasons to be excited about Samsung’s latest software. These devices mark the arrival of One UI 9 stable , and we’ve spent a lot of time since documenting all the big changes present in this release . Our latest, though, actually marks the return of one upgrade we’ve already seen hit Samsung flagships before, as the new foldables all learn a handy USB trick.

We’re talking about the ability to connect your smartphone to a computer over a USB cable, and use your phone’s camera as a PC webcam. The Galaxy S26 series already offers this option , and Google brought it to Pixels back during the Android 14 era, but we’re always still happy to see it coming to more hardware.