Android’s Id Verify function is rolling out to Pixel and Samsung Galaxy units

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

With Id Verify enabled, you may want to supply “express biometric authentication” to entry sure account and telephone settings, like altering your pin or disabling theft safety. You will 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 utilize it. Google says the protections prolong to your Google account or Samsung account as properly, making it more durable for somebody to vary your password simply because they’ve your telephone.

Id Verify is rolling out to Google’s Pixel units operating Android 15 now, and coming to Samsung Galaxy units able to operating One UI 7 “within the coming weeks,” which may line up with the February 7 launch of the Galaxy S25. Different Android telephone makers ought to get the function later this yr.

Together with the discharge of Id 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 screen, has now totally rolled out to units operating Android 10 and up. Each settings are completely value enabling when you have a telephone that helps them.