Google Wants to do Android The safer phones of thieves and this new update can do exactly that.
Google has announced that you are working to offer improved factory restoration protections on Android phones from the end of this year.
That should mean that a stolen Android phone is so difficult to use that it makes them steal a loss of time for most thieves.
The idea is that a stolen Android phone is essentially blocked, unless the original owner, and that person alone, returns it to life.
The characteristic, called Factory Reset Protection, or FRP, already exists in Android 15, but in the Google I/O event, the company announced that it would be even more powerful in the future.
The new version will mean that if someone tries to use a configuration wizard, they will be required to enter the authorization of the owner to use the device. Therefore, it cannot even function as a basic phone, unless the owner authorizes access again.
Since the owners can activate the FRP process using Find My Device, it means the ability to remotely block the device if it disappears. But, crucially, that owner can reactivate the phone if you are again.
What does Google say?
During the Google I/O Edition event, Google announced is plans to “even more harden the factory restoration protections, which will restrict all the functionalities on devices that are restored without the authorization of the owner.”
He showed a screenshot of an Android phone in FRP mode that suggests that he can detect if someone tries to avoid the configuration wizard and then force another factory restart. This should prevent any unauthorized use, which will make it useless for anyone other than the original owner.
When will the new FRP update arrive?
Google said this would arrive later this year. From Android 16 is due soon, this feature is probable does not go with that.
Instead, expect this security improvement to extend to Android devices in one of the Android 16, QRPS quarterly platform releases.
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