Android 16 Advanced Protection: Intrusion Logging Rollout

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📝 Key Points of This Article

• A new “Intrusion logging” feature has been added to the “Device Safety” category of “Advanced Protection,” a security suite for Android devices and Google accounts being rolled out as part of the Android 16 feature set.
• This feature saves a portion of the device’s activity logs to private, end-to-end encrypted storage on Google servers.
• It is being rolled out in Google Play services for Android v26.02.33 or later.

“Advanced Protection,” a suite of security features for Android devices and Google accounts, is currently being rolled out as a core feature of the next-generation Android 16 OS.

A new “Intrusion logging” feature has been added to the “Device Safety” category within Advanced Protection and has begun rolling out. Intrusion logging is a function where a portion of the device’s activity logs are stored in private, end-to-end encrypted storage on Google’s servers.

Essentially, this allows you to uncover evidence from the activity logs if a third party has secretly operated your Android device. This Intrusion logging feature is available in Google Play services for Android v26.02.33 and later.

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If you want to provide robust protection for your Android device and Google account, please make sure to turn on “Advanced Protection.”

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