I feel the majority of it isn’t really Android, but some Google Apps… Google Camera, Instagram, Find hub… RCS messages aren’t in AOSP either… The threat detection will be inside of the Google services… So I won’t get most of this on my phone. And I wonder if OS verification and hardware isolation are features to protect my security, or whether that’s to safeguard some DRM stuff and whatever some dubious app developers don’t want me to touch on my own phone.

More AI, yay

a quick bulletpoint list if people just wanted a glance:

• quickshare compatible with airdrop(pixel, oppo, OP, vivo, xiaomi, honor)
• better ios to android migration (pixel and samsung)
• e2e RCS chat by default
• partnership with meta for deeper social network integration on instagram for sharing and uploading images
• digital wellbeing has a new feature to force a 10 second delay before you can decide to skip app time based locks
• verified financial calls with a few banks (revolut, itau and nubank at first)
• a live threat app detection model to detect malicious operations in apps realtime such as sms forwarding and using an assessibility overlay, with a new alert type system for suspicious app changes
• ability to block accessibility perms from apps that don’t actually classify themselves as accessibility apps.
• messages containing OTP codes are now unable to be read by other apps for 3 hours after recieving. (im hoping this ignores the foreground app and the keyboard… else this will kill any app that offers to get the code for you)
• find my device now requires a second factor biometric auth(if one is setup) after marking a device as lost, in case the thief knew the code
• less invalid attempts allowed for unlocking
• IMEI is now available from the lockscreen by default
• remote lock and theft detection lock are now defaulted on
• session based location permission ability like how accessing camera works
• status bar indicator when a non-foreground app is accessing the devices location
• population detection when providing location so if you are in a low population it appoximates automatically
• a contact picker so it doesn’t need full contact access to see a contact (this will be required to be used from October, 28th on)
• the carrier can now change the 2g toggle setting
• critical google owned software can now be verified against a public ledger to make sure the software is genuine
• even more OS verification requirements for the device to show as a verified OS (android 17)