That smartphone in your pocket is home to your favorite apps, personal accounts, and sensitive data. That means your device should have the strongest security protection available to prevent the wrong ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Android security update adds preventative user blocks. Update, May 16, 2025: This story, originally published May 14, has been updated with news of more security features that have either arrived or ...

Advanced Protection locks key Android 16 security settings. Blocks sideloading, spam, unsafe links, and insecure networks. Not on by default. You must enable it in ...

Now that most people have huge amounts of personal data on their phones, security is more important than ever—even if most people care a lot more about apps, ease of use, design, and price. But the ...

India phone security rules could add a notification step before major updates and security patches ship. Companies warn that ...

Android users should update their phones immediately as Google's December 2025 patch fixes critical vulnerabilities.

Google has released the Android Security Bulletin for January, but there's no sign of the regular Pixel bug fixes for the month.

January 2026 Android update patches a single vulnerability, a critical Dolby issue whose existence came to light in October ...

Google shares January 2026 Android Security Bulletin addressing a zero-click flaw, But Pixel 10 users wait for fixes to ...