Manage security & privacy settings on your Pixel telephone

You tin can help protect your phone by updating your security and privacy settings.

Manage your security settings

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Security.
  3. At the top, you'll run across the security status of your device and Google Account. If there are important deportment to take to secure your device or accounts, a alert message volition appear.

Understand your security status

No problems institute: No security issues are present on your device or Google Account.

Security tin be improved: Y'all have security recommendations.

Security may be at adventure: Delight review the security recommendations and take action to secure your account or device.

Security is at adventure: At that place are critical security issues which require your attention. Please review the security recommendations and take activity to secure your account or device.

Security settings you can manage

  • App security:
    Play Protect regularly checks your apps & devices for harmful behavior. Yous'll be notified of whatever security risks plant.
  • Detect My Device
    Brand certain your phone can be found if it gets lost. Learn how to exist set up to find a lost telephone.
  • Security update
    See whether your system is up to date. Learn how to check and update your Android version.
  • Screen lock
    Lock your phone with a Pin, pattern, or password. Acquire how to set a screen lock.
  • Face & fingerprint unlock
    Use your fingerprint or face up to unlock your phone and authorize purchases. Learn how to gear up up fingerprints or face up unlock.

  • Google security checkup
    Review signed in devices, saved passwords, recent activity, and more than related to your Google Business relationship.

  • Google Play organization update
    Bank check for updates to your Android operating organization.

Advanced security settings

  • Smart Lock
    Prepare your device to stay unlocked in certain circumstances. Larn how to turn on Smart Lock.

  • Device admin apps

    Detect or remove apps that tin can administrate your phone.

  • SIM card lock:
    Require a Pivot to use your device.

  • Suspicious message alerts
    Go alerts for text messages that may include a suspicious asking, simulated link, or potential scam.

  • Trust agents
    Let your phone use automated-unlock options like Trusted Places or Vocalization Match. Learn how to plough on automatic unlock.
  • App pinning
    Y'all can pin a screen to proceed it in view until yous unpin it. Learn how to pin screens.

  • Confirm SIM deletion
    Verify it's you before erasing a downloaded SIM.

  • Open source licenses
    View the Android open source licenses associated with your device.

Piece of work profile security

If yous use a piece of work profile on your device, you can as well manage these settings:

  • Use ane lock: Utilize the aforementioned device screen lock as your personal business relationship on this device.
  • Work profile lock: Set up a different screen lock than your personal business relationship on this device.
  • Face & fingerprint unlock for work: But access your piece of work contour by unlocking your device with your face or fingerprint lock.

Manage your privacy settings

  1. Open your telephone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Privacy.

Privacy settings you can manage

  • Privacy Dashboard
    Evidence which apps recently used permissions.

  • Permission manager
    Control app access to your data.

  • Photographic camera access
    Control photographic camera access for all apps and services.

  • Microphone access
    Control microphone access for all apps and services.

  • Evidence passwords
    To help you employ passwords that are more complex and secure, you tin encounter what you type.

  • Notifications on lock screen
    Decide which notifications to bear witness on lockscreen.
  • Private Compute Core
    Get suggestions based on the people, apps, and content you interact with. Learn more about device learning.

  • Personalize with app data
    Allow apps to send content to the Android system.

  • Prove clipboard access
    Show a message when apps admission text, images, or other content you've copied.

  • Autofill service from Google
    Manage saved passwords, credit cards, and addresses.

  • Google location history
    Save where you go with your device.

  • Action controls
    Cull the activities and info you permit Google to save.

  • Ads
    Personalize ads and manage your advertising ID.

  • Usage & diagnostics
    Share data to aid amend Android.

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