As often happens when it comes to safety on Android, Google is trying to find a delicate balance between rigorous protection and daily usability, introducing a new functionality that could simplify access to sensitive content without compromising too much safety. Let’s talk about Android Identity Checkan advanced function of verification of the identity that we already know and that, in the next versions, The associated smartwatch will also begin to recognize as a trusted elementsimilarly to what already happens with reliable places.
Here’s how the smartwatch will become an element of trust for Android Identity Check
From the analysis of the 25.31.30 Beta of the Google Play Services, a new string of code has emerged compared to what is identified a few days ago, which clarifies how Identity Check will behave in the future when it detects a connected smartwatch:
Outside of Trusted Places Like Your Home
• If you have a Connected Watch, you can use either biometrics or your pin
• If you don’t have a Connected Watch, you’ll be foreskin to use fingerprint or face unlock
As you can see, the presence of one Compatible and connected smartwatch may lighten the authentication process when you are in environments considered unsafe (for example on the street or in a non -usual public place); Instead of having to provide both the PIN and the biometric data, Only one of the two will be sufficient, precisely because the clock will act as a further trusted factor.
For those who have not yet had the opportunity to deepen, Identity Check is that security system introduced with Android 15 and designed to get into operation in the worst cases, for example if someone comes into possession of your smartphone and knows your PIN (because maybe he observed you while you type, or he extorted it with force); In such situations, the system assumes that the PIN has been compromised and requires a further verification step, often biometry, to access sensitive settings or saved passwords.
This new approach that includes smartwatches represents, in fact, aEvolution of the concept of authentication with two contextual factors, in which the user can choose two of three possible options: PIN, Biometry or trusted smartwatch.
Always digging among the code strings of the latest beta version of the Google Play Services, another rather interesting detail has emerged; Google looks like At work on a kind of identity check V2, a new version that would extend the system radius of the system to the third -party apps that use biometry.
Identity Check Works with Any App That Unes Use Biometrics.
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Notes: Over Time, Identity Check May Add More Ways To Verify It’s You and Secure Apps On Your Device.
A perspective that could radically change the approach to safety on Android, shifting attention from perimeter protection (limited to certain system functions) to one widespread and dynamic protection, also applicable within the applications that process sensitive datasuch as banking apps, password managers and the like.
At the moment, just to change, there is no official information on implementation timing, nor is there any certainty that Google does not carry out further changes to identity check; We just have to wait to find out more.
