Before the I/O 2025 event, during Google's The Android Show: I/O Edition, the company showed a glimpse of some special features available in Android 16. The feature that caught people's attention during the Android Show is related to mobile safety and theft protection. With Android 16, the company is preparing to make the Factory Reset Protection feature stronger than before. With the new operating system, such an amazing feature is also going to be added to your phone, which can increase the difficulty of thieves.

Thieves do this after stealing.

After the phone is stolen, when the stolen phone is reset through Find My Device, then to use the phone again, it is necessary to enter the Google account that was running earlier on the phone. But in the last few years, thieves have found a way to bypass this system.

Thieves have found a way to skip the Setup Wizard so that they can activate the phone. After the phone is activated, it becomes easy to sell the stolen phone to another customer, but now Google has found a way to break it.

How will the phone become junk?

Google has made FRP i.e. Factory Reset Protection more stringent than before, if after the phone is stolen, any thief tries to bypass the Setup Wizard, then the system will be factory reset again and will again ask the owner of the phone to enter the passcode of Google account or screen lock, which will increase the difficulty of the thieves because they will not be able to setup the phone.

If the phone is not set up, then the phone cannot be used, which means no other customer will buy the phone. In such a situation, it will not be wrong to say that after stealing the Android phone, it will become junk for the thieves.

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