Android security updates rolled out this week resolve 180 vulnerabilities, including dozens of critical-severity flaws.

With the increasing sophistication of digital threats, safeguarding your phone and personal data has never been more crucial. Android is responding with a suite of new security features designed to ...

A thief could always guess my PIN, not my fingerprint ...

With the latest Android theft protection security features, you can prevent access to the data on your smartphone if it’s stolen. You can enable your smartphone to ...

Many features I was used to stopped working within a day, and it changed what Android meant as a smartphone OS ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Android 16 is preparing to add a new Android Advanced Protection Mode service. This service lets users enroll their device into Advanced Protection Mode via Settings. Apps can check if you’re enrolled ...

If you use an Android phone, this deserves your attention. Cybersecurity researchers warn that hackers are using Hugging Face, a popular platform for sharing artificial intelligence (AI) tools, to ...

The latest Android 16 beta has added an API that lets apps check if the user has enrolled in Advanced Protection. Advanced Protection is an enhanced security mode that beefs up account security, ...

Smartphones today increasingly lack truly unique innovations, as Android devices and iPhones frequently borrow features from each other. This is evident in device security, demonstrated by the leaked ...

Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android ...

Google is announcing improvements for the Advanced Protection feature in Android 16 that strengthen defenses against sophisticated spyware attacks. The Android platform has been a constant target for ...