Google makes it easier to find Android’s theft protection settings

Google lastly rolled out the Android 15 replace to its Pixel units earlier this week, delivering an entire host of privateness and safety enhancements. To coincide with its massive Android 15 launch, Google additionally began distributing its new theft safety options to Android telephones around the globe. Theft safety is a set of instruments that lock your telephone when it’s been stolen so thieves can’t get entry to your information. It’s important to allow these new options manually, however fortunately, Google is rolling out an replace that makes it simpler to find and allow controls for theft safety on Android.

To this point, to activate theft safety on Android, you’ve needed to go to Settings, scroll down, faucet Google, faucet All companies, scroll down, then lastly faucet Theft safety to open the menu. You probably have a Pixel gadget, you possibly can find this menu a bit faster by utilizing the search perform within the Settings app, however remember that the theft safety menu gained’t seem within the search perform of many different units, like on the Xiaomi 14T Professional.

Following a server-side replace that’s rolling out now, yow will discover the Theft safety menu on Android by navigating to Settings > Safety & privateness > Machine unlock. We don’t know when precisely this new entry level first arrived, however it’s out there on a number of of my units already, together with a Pixel 6a operating Android 14, a Xiaomi 14T Professional operating Android 14, and a Pixel 7 Professional operating Android 15.

This entry level will largely seem on units operating Android 14 and later because the “Safety & privateness” menu, in any other case generally known as Security Middle, is a core Android 14 characteristic. Security Middle is a part of the Permission Mainline module, so updates to it are pushed out by way of the Google Play System Updates mechanism.

Placing an entry level to the Theft safety menu beneath Machine unlock settings ought to hopefully assist increase adoption of Android’s theft safety options. When Google introduced them earlier this week, it solely notified folks by way of weblog posts and social media, so many Android customers who don’t take note of these channels or observe shops like Android Authority will do not know the options can be found.

Theft safety presently consists of three primary options: Theft Detection Lock, Offline Machine Lock, and Distant Lock. Every of those lock your telephone beneath completely different circumstances with the intention to shield your information after your telephone has been stolen: Theft Safety detects when a thief snatches your telephone after which locks it; Offline Machine Lock detects when your telephone has been saved offline for a time frame after which locks it; and Distant Lock helps you to remotely lock your telephone utilizing simply your telephone quantity in case you, for no matter cause, can’t signal into Discover My Machine.