Summary: Google is adding an auto-restart feature to Android devices to improve their security. This feature will force Android devices to restart
Summary: Google is adding an auto-restart feature to Android devices to improve their security. This feature will force Android devices to restart automatically if they have been locked for a certain number of days in a row. After the reboot, a PIN or password will be required to lock the device.
Google is beefing up security on Android with yet another new method of bolstering the protection against thieves, by way of an auto-restart feature for devices after they’ve been locked beyond a certain length of time. While this is in no way the same thing, Google’s new security feature reminds me of people’s online accounts being deleted after they’ve been dormant and unused for a while.
That’s not really the concept here, save for the action happening after breaching that threshold of a certain number of days. But it does draw attention to the fact that Google thinks having a time barrier could be a good way to further secure devices. Google’s new security feature, which is being pushed in an update to Google Play Services, is intended to put a phone back into the state of security before the device has been unlocked for the first time.
