Google is announcing improvements for the Advanced Protection feature in Android 16 that strengthen defenses against sophisticated spyware attacks.

Android 16 has a new security featured called "Advanced Protection." I recently enabled it, and I think anyone with Android 16 should, too.

When a user turns Advanced Protection on, Android will impose enhanced defenses broadly across the operating system, but third-party integration will enable deeper defenses within non-Google apps.

The independent open source effort has ported the source code of Android 4.0.1 to work with tablets based on Advanced Micro Devices' low-power x86 chips code-named Brazos, which are typically used ...

Advanced Protection is a quick toggle to lock down your phone for maximum security. Try it now on the Android 16 beta.

Advanced Protection offers the most robust all-around security available on Android under a single setting—an incredibly useful tool for journalists, activists, and anyone with access to ...

This week the team released the first stable build based on Android Oreo. The latest update has been in the works for a while — I reported on an Android-x86 8.1 release candidate last June.