Google begins to roll the new android identity security feature.
Google is extracting security updates left, right and center. By the Google Chrome browser 132.0.6834.110 Acquiring the vulnerability for three billion users, the second within a few days, to the new rules the time that affects Android 15 users, and is critical but in a good way. Assuming that your smartphone is supported, that is, and currently, the list of such devices is small concern. Here’s what you need to know about identity control.
The critical new security feature rotates – but only to select the android smartphone users
Google has confirmed that the android theft protection functionality is improving with a new critical feature. But only if you use the right smartphone, and the device list is extremely small now.
Updating security really is a great job, though for a relatively small number of users. Known as identity control, this new feature, Google said, “requires biometric certificate for sensitive resources outside trusted places.” Regular readers can remember that I reported on this in an article last year, though at that time it was just a rumor, though with a fair amount of Beta Android 15 to support it. Now, this rumor is a fact for some.
Jianing Sandra Guo, Android Product Manager and Nataliya Stanetsky, staff program manager, said, “We are officially starting identity control, first on Pixel and Samsung Galaxy equipment right for a UI 7.” Users of Pixel Equipment that operate Android 15 will get updated immediately, qualified Samsung Galaxy users with a UI 7 will see it “in the coming weeks”. Everyone else, however, will have to wait until later in 2025, according to the Google announcement.
How to activate Android Identity Control
Google said that after being activated, identity control requires your clear biometric certificate when out of trusted locations and trying to access sensitive resources such as critical account and device settings, smartphone or biometric pin change and access to switches , for example. You need to configure at least such a reliable place when setting the identity control.
Identity control requires that the theft protection be activated, and you can do this from your Android settings: Google | All services | Protecting the theft. However, to activate identity control protection involves a little more work. To begin with, Google said “Only equipment that supports Class 3 biometrics have identity control – if the theft protection settings site does not list identity control, your device does not support it.” If it happens, you are one of the lucky ones and you have to do the following:
- By settings | Google | All services | Protecting the theft, meet identity control.
- Log in to a Google account.
- Add a screen lock.
- Add fingerprints or unlock the biometric face.
- Add your reliable seats.
- Verify your phone number if you want to be able to recover your Google account more easily. This step is optional; You will be pleased to hear.
Just know that if your device supports it, you need to activate this feature as it brings added security to your Android smartphone that, as Google ended, makes it “much harder for an unauthorized attacker to take on accounts signed on the device. ” So what are you waiting for? Go check your smartphone now.