Smartphones have practically become an extension of our body, and because we spend so many hours with them and use them for all kinds of activities, these devices store a huge amount of our personal and banking data.
And with the rise of cybercrime, protecting our mobile phones has become a crucial task. For that reason, manufacturers themselves are working to offer users the best possible security measures and Google, during its Google I/O developers conference, presented numerous innovations to make Android smartphones much more secure against theft.
Thieves have many reasons to want to physically steal a phone, but with Android 15 their chances are going to be greatly reduced. On one hand, smartphone theft is usually with the intention of resetting them to factory settings and then selling them, however, in the coming months updated Android phones will have a function that makes it impossible to set up a phone as new without knowing the code or the password of our Google account.
At the same time, the goal of these thefts is to access our bank apps, so Google has introduced a feature that allows us to hide the most sensitive apps protected by a security code to make it even more difficult to access them.
Because the tricks of cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, practically all phone adjustments or changes will require biometric data (almost impossible to replicate), preventing anyone from changing or editing sensitive settings on the phone.
Automatic theft detection in Android 15
But undoubtedly the most interesting aspects that Google is going to include in Android 15 are the automatic protections in case of theft of your smartphone. Thanks to the Theft detection lock function, powered by AI, the phone detects if someone has taken the phone out of our hands and run away.
This is possible thanks to AI that has been trained to detect motion associated with these situations and is responsible for automatically locking the screen. At the same time, Android devices will be equipped with Offline device lock technology that detects and completely blocks the device if someone has tried to unlock the phone unsuccessfully multiple times.
