Google is formally launching a brand new Android safety function for Pixel units with Android 15 to forestall cellphone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The function, known as Identity Check, requires biometric authentication to entry some account and machine settings while you’re not at a trusted location (equivalent to your house or your office).
“A stolen machine within the flawed fingers can expose delicate knowledge, leaving you susceptible to identification theft, monetary fraud and privateness breaches,” Google says in its weblog publish in regards to the launch. Apple launched an identical function to Identity Check, known as Stolen Device Protection, following studies of thieves watching folks enter their iPhone passcodes, stealing the telephones, and utilizing the passcodes to entry personal data and lock customers out of their Apple accounts.
Settings protected by Android’s Identity Check embrace altering your machine’s PIN, disabling theft safety, turning off Find My Device, manufacturing unit reseting your machine, and altering biometrics, in keeping with a assist doc.
Identity Check initially launched in beta late final 12 months as a part of the December Pixel Drop. The function can be coming to Samsung Galaxy units that may get One UI 7 “within the coming weeks” and to units from different producers “later this 12 months,” Google says.
