Google is giving the lock screen widgets page a Material 3 Expressive makeover. In the Android Canary, it now uses a ...

Similar to 2FA, your Android lock screen is the only one layer of protection against theft and targeted cyberattacks.

Android's Remote Lock is a nifty idea to help secure your phone. ... An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code.

Android 16's Secure Lock could make lost phones impenetrable. Story by Karandeep Singh Oberoi ... Here's how Google describes the feature in a commit in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP): ...

Over on the Android Developers Blog, Product Manager Tyler Beneke and Software Engineer Luca Silva confirmed that lock screen widgets will be making a full comeback this summer.Specifically the ...

Lock screen widgets are available already on the Pixel Tablet, but they’ll come to phones and other tablets later this year in Android 16’s QPR1 update.

However, lock screen widgets won't automatically appear when running Android 16. It will be up to phone manufacturers, such as Samsung, to add the functionality through an update.

After a 10-year hiatus, lock screen widgets are set to make a comeback on Android phones. They'll arrive with an update to Android 16 in late summer, Google confirms .