While everyone is talking about the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's impressive privacy screen, I'm currently losing my mind over the updated Super Steady video mode with horizontal lock. It's essentially a digital gimbal inside your smartphone.
As announced by Samsung and announced during Galaxy Unpacked in February 2026, this new mode, an upgrade from the previous motion control Super Steady mode, can lock your video in a smooth horizontal plane, even if you rotate the camera a full 360 degrees.
While filming, I turned the S26 Ultra from side to side. Then I rotated it 180 degrees and finally rotated it 360 degrees, all while recording the video.
To show the results, I combined the iPhone 17 Pro Max clips and the Galaxy S26 Ultra images into one amazing TikTok.
The results are truly shocking. I'm not saying that the video doesn't move at all. It bounces around a bit, but never tilts left or right, much less flips over, even though I turned the phone over.
Compare this to the iPhone 17 Pro Max's action video settings, which are adept at smoothing out bumpy videos, but if I rotate the camera left, right, or tilt it nearly 180 degrees, that's reflected in the final video.
I still have a long way to go in the review process of my Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, but the results of this test are undeniably impressive.
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