Google is formally launching a brand new Android safety characteristic for Pixel gadgets with Android 15 to stop cellphone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The characteristic, referred to as Id Examine, requires biometric authentication to entry some account and machine settings once you’re not at a trusted location (similar to your own home or your office).
“A stolen machine within the fallacious palms can expose delicate information, leaving you weak to id theft, monetary fraud and privateness breaches,” Google says in its weblog publish concerning the launch. Apple launched an identical characteristic to Id Examine, referred to as Stolen System Safety, following experiences of thieves watching individuals enter their iPhone passcodes, stealing the telephones, and utilizing the passcodes to entry non-public data and lock customers out of their Apple accounts.
Settings protected by Android’s Id Examine embrace altering your machine’s PIN, disabling theft safety, turning off Discover My System, manufacturing facility reseting your machine, and altering biometrics, based on a assist doc.
Id Examine initially launched in beta late final yr as a part of the December Pixel Drop. The characteristic can also be coming to Samsung Galaxy gadgets that may get One UI 7 “within the coming weeks” and to gadgets from different producers “later this yr,” Google says.
