Android security updates rolled out this week resolve 180 vulnerabilities, including dozens of critical-severity flaws.

A thief could always guess my PIN, not my fingerprint ...

With the increasing sophistication of digital threats, safeguarding your phone and personal data has never been more crucial. Android is responding with a suite of new security features designed to ...

Many features I was used to stopped working within a day, and it changed what Android meant as a smartphone OS ...

With the latest Android theft protection security features, you can prevent access to the data on your smartphone if it’s stolen. You can enable your smartphone to ...

The latest Android 16 beta has added an API that lets apps check if the user has enrolled in Advanced Protection. Advanced Protection is an enhanced security mode that beefs up account security, ...

Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

With Android 16, users can enable Advanced Protection to “activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices.” The Chrome for Android team has now detailed how Advanced Protection works. There ...

Smartphones today increasingly lack truly unique innovations, as Android devices and iPhones frequently borrow features from each other. This is evident in device security, demonstrated by the leaked ...

Android 16 is preparing to add a new Android Advanced Protection Mode service. This service lets users enroll their device into Advanced Protection Mode via Settings. Apps can check if you’re enrolled ...

Google is announcing improvements for the Advanced Protection feature in Android 16 that strengthen defenses against sophisticated spyware attacks. The Android platform has been a constant target for ...