Identity Check offers an extra layer of protection when someone steals both your phone and your PIN. By requiring biometrics, Identity Check attempts to limit the harm bad actors could do. Google is ...

The tech giant has extended Identity Check to all features and apps that use the Android Biometric Prompt. "This means that ...

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 ...

Google may be working on smartwatch support for Android’s Identity Check feature. A connected watch could serve as a second authentication factor outside trusted locations. The feature was spotted in ...

I was feeling proud at 4:07 AM on June 26, 2025 – showing up two hours before my painfully early flight from New York’s Laguardia Airport to Boston Logan. I’d left myself plenty of time in case ...

Earlier this year, Google enhanced its suite of anti-theft and data protection features with the introduction of Identity Check. The feature, as its name suggests, aims to check if the person trying ...