Google has invested various resources to increase the security of its mobile operating system, Android has undoubtedly made giant strides in this sense by providing all users with a series of tools aimed at protecting their online security.
Despite this, we all know Google well and its sometimes “slightly incomprehensible” way of operating. In this regard, in the last few hours it has emerged that the giant intends to eliminate a security feature from Android, due to the poor adoption of this feature. latest from the major smartphone manufacturers.
Google is eliminating Android Protected Confirmation (APC)
Android Protected Confirmation (APC) , this is the name of the security feature that the Mountain View giant intends to remove from Android, the name may sound new to most, but in reality it is a feature introduced for the first time with Android 9 , the purpose of which was to ensure that the user only consented to transactions with trusted apps.
Developer Mishaal Rahman spread the news on X (formerly Twitter ), providing the poor adoption of the functionality by the main OEMs as an explanation for the giant’s intentions.
Google’s aim with the introduction of APC was to perform critical transactions completely outside of the main mobile operating system, apps could in fact use APC to allow the user to confirm the transaction by double-pressing the power button. As already mentioned, however, the adoption of this functionality has been almost nil, so much so that the only smartphones to benefit from it were the Google Pixels.
