Refrigeration screens are a good way to protect your data, but thieves steal your smartphone when it is activated (or after seeing your pass code), and then it is still a real security risk. Apple deals with this susceptibility to security with his Stolen tool protection featureAnd now Google has a similar function called identity check in Android 15.
The identity examination ensures that strangers in public cannot change the account settings of your Android smartphone without first handing over a secondary biometric authentication. First, set up one or more trustworthy places like your home. If someone outside of one of these locations has your phone and tries to access your passwords, change your PIN or to deactivate the discovery of my device function, he must first hand over a biometric lock.
The function is first equipped on pixel devices and every Samsung Galaxy device with a user interface 7. As with most new Android. Accordingly A Google blogOther manufacturers will add support “later this year”.
The protective measures of identity check are quite robust. Gating settings such as resetting your smartphone, changing the screen lock, creating a new fingerprint ID, deactivating the Find My Device function, adding a new Google account, accessible developer options and access to passwords and passwords in the password manager .
A big difference between Android’s identity examination and Apple’s stolen equipment protection is the time delay. Apple basically blocks it to change an important setting in an unknown place until you have been waiting for an hour. Maybe a little too frustrating, but this hour can give someone enough time to delete your device from a distance. Android might be good to follow the example.
At the moment you have to activate the identity examination manually. Go to Settings > Google account > All services > Theft protection. Here you activate the Use identity examination Special feature.
Here you can also click on the Administer Button to add trustworthy locations such as your work area or your home. If you deactivate the function, you must either be authenticated with the help of biometry or by registering in your Google account.
Together with this update, Google also performs the AI-driven theft detection lock for all supported devices, the Android 10 or higher (the The function was published for Pixel users last year). This function recognizes when a smartphone is violently taken away by them, using data from the integrated smartphones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more. You can activate it under Settings > Google account > All services > Theft protection > Theft detection lock.
