Google’s Identity Check For Android Keeps Phone Thieves Out Of Your Digital Accounts

Google is officially launching a caller Android accusation 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 narration and instrumentality settings erstwhile you’re not astatine a trusted location (such arsenic your location aliases your workplace).

“A stolen instrumentality successful nan incorrect hands tin expose delicate data, leaving you susceptible to characteristic theft, financial fraud and privateness breaches,” Google says successful its blog position astir nan launch. Apple introduced a akin characteristic to Identity Check, called Stolen Device Protection, pursuing reports of thieves watching group input their iPhone passcodes, stealing nan phones, and utilizing nan passcodes to entree backstage accusation and fastener users retired of their Apple accounts.

Settings protected by Android’s Identity Check spot 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.

Identity Check initially launched successful beta precocious past twelvemonth arsenic information of nan December Pixel Drop. The characteristic is too coming to Samsung Galaxy devices that tin get One UI 7 “in nan coming weeks” and to devices from different manufacturers “later this year,” Google says.