Android will be able to determine whether someone has stolen your phone.
It's one of many new privacy and theft prevention tools that will be available soon.
With the release of its second Android 15 beta, Google is revealing a number of new security features, one of which is the ability to recognize when your phone is snatched from your grasp. When Android 15 launches this autumn, it will come with some of these changes. However, many other features, like theft detection, will also work with phones running even earlier OS versions, making them accessible to a far wider audience.
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The way the Theft Detection Lock operates is by identifying the peculiar movements that would suggest someone has dragged a table in front of you or your phone out of your grasp. The screen automatically locks to keep information on your device out of the hands of thieves. In addition to searching for additional indicators of foul play, the system can lock the screen to defend itself in the event that someone tries to remove it from the network to block remote access.
Additionally, Google is launching a new method for remotely locking your phone's screen in case it falls into the wrong hands. You can lock your smartphone by going to android.com/lock, where you can input your phone number and answer a security question. This is a potentially useful feature if all you have access to right now is a friend's phone. Later this year, a Google Play services upgrade for phones running Android 10 or later will bring all of these features to users.
Along with additional security features, Android 15 also offers "private spaces," which let you store data and apps on your phone in a secret region that can be secured with a special PIN. Additionally, Google is implementing safeguards that need the owner's credentials the next time a phone is set up in case it is forced to reset.
With the goal of "expanding Play Protect's on-device AI capabilities with Google Play Protect live threat detection," an upgrade for Android's Play Protect is also being released. In order to detect indicators of phishing and fraud, it will examine how apps use private compute core without gathering data on your phone. Google receives potentially harmful apps for additional inspection if anything odd is found. Later this year, live threat detection will be included by Google Pixel, Honor, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, Oppo, Sharp, Transsion, and other devices.
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Similar to the previous year, Google's most recent operating system version had a diminishing impact on the company's opening presentation at I/O. While Android 15 is still in beta, we'll learn more about its new features over the coming months. In the meantime, we're excited to see so many new features coming to a wide range of Android phones, not just those with the newest OS version.
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