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c/android · by henfredemars@infosec.pub · 1y

Android 16 is getting a little more secure by stealing this iOS feature (APK teardown)

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-inactivity-reboot-android-16-3539949/

  • An Android Authority app teardown has revealed that Google is working on an inactivity reboot feature.
  • This security feature would reboot devices if they’ve been locked for three consecutive days.
  • This will likely be part of Android 16’s Advanced Protection Mode, which also blocks sideloading, disables 2G connections, and more.
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phubarr@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Blocks sideloading??

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I've heard enough about Android 16

Virkkunen@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)
  • An Android Authority app teardown has revealed that Google is working on an inactivity reboot feature.
  • This security feature would reboot devices if they’ve been locked for three consecutive days.

Pretty cool, three days is kinda long for someone's primary phone though, I wonder if they'll let you reduce that to 24 hours or something

Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 1y

I just hope you can enable that without needing to activate that "Advanced Protection" thing because no sideloading sucks

adbenitez@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y

Meanwhile me not giving a F about this news because I use CalyxOS and the feature to auto-restart the phone on inactivity with fine customizable time and not a fixed 3 days exist since a long time already there

burgersc12@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Samsung has had auto restart for years