Google is even the noses of the fraud by SMS and calls. Android’s new functions are going to hunt

Important day for Android and consumer technology. Google has made official some of the changes that will arrive with Android 16. Among them, Material 3 Expressivethe new design language that will land this 2025.

In addition to changes in the interface, Google wanted to focus on security and privacy. To do this, it opens a good number of functions that will land in the coming months.

Protection against fraudulent SMS. It is more than probable that, in recent months, you have arrived some SMS that promised to be from a telephone company, parcel company or the like. The detection of Scams in Google messages will improve with Android 16and Android will notify in real time of possible fraud.

Within the messages itself, the system will notify us when a message is suspicious of fraud: identity supplant, scams related to cryptocurrencies, fraudulent billing … This analysis will be carried out in a 100% local way within the device, so that nothing that comes to us will be processed in the cloud.

Also in calls. Google has been doing something very well for years: Filter suspicious spam calls. However, sometimes this is not enough to protect the user.

With Android 16, there are certain actions that cannot be made during calls. The objective is to prevent scammers from asking the user to make behaviors that play against them (change security settings, modify some aspects of the system, etc.) during a call.

In other words, Android will not only have protection against spam. He will also have it against the SCAM: the various scams that are so on digital roads.

Key Verifier. Another of the new tools that lands in the new version of Android is Key Verifier. This is focused on combating fraud due to impersonation of identity, and will allow us to verify the identity of the people with whom we communicate through public encryption keys.

Through a QR code it will be possible to verify that the contact is verified in the Google messages app, since its keys must coincide with those assigned. It is a great solution to the popular problem of Sim Swapping, in which they replace our identity by passing through our telephone number.

This measure is not linked to Android 16. It will arrive from summer to all devices that have Android 10 or higher.

Anti -theft protection. Google premiered interesting Anti -theft functions not too muchand now he wants to take a twist. Safety measures will be reinforced in sections such as the factory reset of a device. It will no longer suffice to know the mobile key, it will also be possible to add an additional layer through a security question.

In the same way, this will apply to the remote device block, to minimize the possibility that an attacker can make changes to our mobile if he has had access to any of his keys.

Find Hub. Do you remember Find My Device? Well, you can forget him. This Google service evolves to Find Hub, the natural evolution of the app to track our devices.

With Find Hub we will have more unified locations not only of objects, but of the contacts that we add to our network, as well as the objects that carry tracking devices such as Tile, Moto Tag and others.

Security protection. To finish strengthening system safety, the device protection function arrives. This is a function in which the apps will be informed that it is active, to avoid the temptation to access our information. What exactly do you?

While active, anti -theft functions, memory optimizations and applications against possible bugs and errors that can be exploited, network connection protection to avoid insecure websites, and the aforementioned messaging and SCAM options will always be operational.

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