Tasker can no longer enable/disable secure folder on Samsung OneUI6

[Yuri Vidal]

Up until OneUI5 (Android 13), tasker was able to enable/disable secure folder on Samsung devices by changing the custom system setting "hide_secure_folder_flag" between 1 and 0.

On Android 14 (OneUI6) this is no longer possible. 
The setting is toggled, but nothing actually happens. Secure folder is not enabled or disabled, and instead just stays in whatever state it currently is.

Odd thing tho, is that the system toggle seem to get confused. 
Example: If you have secure folder disabled, and use tasker to change to  hide_secure_folder_flag = 0, secure folder is not enabled. But, when you press the dropdown toggle to enable it, you have to press it twice in order for it to work. (My guess is that the first press changed it back to 1 then the second press actually changes it to 0).

[João Dias]

Unfortunately that's just how some system parts work with these settings. The system sometimes is not ready to handle changes not made by itself and somehow needs to be refreshed (like in your case with a reboot) to read the setting again internally and see that it changed. It's just a bit of maybe not-so-good coding of the system going on under the hood where it doesn't pick up on the changes right away. Nothing Tasker can do to force it unfortunately unless you find some other way to trigger it to re-read the setting internally.

Thank you for your contact.

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