Google Wants to make Android The phone more secure than the thieves and this new update can do it right.
Google has announced that it has been working to provide increased factory reset security on Android phones since the end of this year.
This should mean that it is very difficult to use a stolen Android phone, it steals them with time wastage for most thieves.
The idea is that the Android phone of a theft is essentially brick, until the original owner – and that person alone – brings it back to life.
The feature called the factory reset protection, or FRP is already present on Android 15, but at the Google I/O event the company announced that it would be even more powerful in the future.
The new version would mean that if a setup tries to use the wizard, the bypass will require them to enter the owner’s authority to use the device. So it will not be able to work as a basic phone, until the owner re -authorizes access.
Since the owners can activate the FRP process using my device, it means the ability to lock the device from a distance if it disappears. But, significantly, that owner is capable of re -activated when found again.
What does Google say?
During the Google I/O variant incident, Google announced that “further the Harden Factory Reset Safety plans that will restrict all functionalities on the equipment that are reset without the owner’s authority.”
This showed a screenshot of an Android phone in FRP mode, which suggests that it would be able to find out if a setup tries to bypass the wizard and then forces another factory reset. It should stop any unauthorized use – to make it useless, but the original owner.
When is the new FRP update coming?
Google said it would come at the end of this year. since Android 16 is due to soon, it is likely that this feature will not come with it.
Instead, this safety growth will be rolled out for Android devices in Android 16 quarterly platform release, one of the QRPs.
