Google is officially launching a caller Android information characteristic for Pixel devices pinch Android 15 to forestall telephone thieves from accessing your integer accounts. The feature, called Identity Check, requires biometric authentication to entree immoderate relationship and instrumentality settings erstwhile you’re not astatine a trusted location (such arsenic your location aliases your workplace).
“A stolen instrumentality successful the incorrect hands tin expose delicate data, leaving you susceptible to personality theft, financial fraud and privateness breaches,” Google says successful its blog station astir the launch. Apple introduced a akin characteristic to Identity Check, called Stolen Device Protection, pursuing reports of thieves watching group input their iPhone passcodes, stealing the phones, and utilizing the passcodes to entree backstage accusation and fastener users retired of their Apple accounts.
Settings protected by Android’s Identity Check see changing your device’s PIN, disabling theft protection, turning disconnected Find My Device, mill reseting your device, and changing biometrics, according to a support document.
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Identity Check initially launched successful beta late past year arsenic portion of the December Pixel Drop. The characteristic is besides coming to Samsung Galaxy devices that tin get One UI 7 “in the coming weeks” and to devices from different manufacturers “later this year,” Google says.