Android’s Identification Verify function is ...

Google is releasing its previously announced Identity Check feature at the moment, including additional safety to “essential account and machine settings” once you’re not in a trusted location.

With Identification Verify enabled, you may want to supply “specific biometric authentication” to entry sure account and telephone settings, like altering your pin or disabling theft safety. You may should toggle the function on in settings and add trusted areas the place you do not need biometric authentication to be enabled earlier than you employ it. Google says the protections prolong to your Google account or Samsung account as nicely, making it more durable for somebody to vary your password simply because they’ve your telephone.

Identification Verify is rolling out to Google’s Pixel gadgets working Android 15 now, and coming to Samsung Galaxy gadgets able to working One UI 7 “within the coming weeks,” which might line up with the February 7 launch of the Galaxy S25. Different Android telephone makers ought to get the function later this 12 months.

Together with the discharge of Identification Verify, Google says that its Theft Detection Lock function, which makes use of AI to detect when your telephone has been forcibly taken from you and lock your display, has now absolutely rolled out to gadgets working Android 10 and up. Each settings are completely price enabling if in case you have a telephone that helps them.