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New features, emojis, & security improvements: Here’s everything new coming to Android! (www.reddit.com)
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Mishaal Rahman (now a Google employee) has made a big Reddit post showcasing all the new Android-related announcements. Hold your nose and pop to Reddit for all the info!

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

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)