{"id":262909,"date":"2026-06-03T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-and-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:45:11","slug":"the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-and-apple-is-already-doing-them-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-and-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The security features on my Android phone are broken, and Apple is already doing them better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/\">The security features on my Android phone are broken, and Apple is already doing them better<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I asked a friend to steal my phone from my hand. It took him a few goes to handle the snatch, but eventually he managed to lift my device with impressive speed.<\/p>\n<p>As he sprinted in the opposite direction, he checked the phone to see how much trouble he could cause. Unfortunately for me, it was a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This was the last experiment I ran in an attempt to push Android\u2019s theft-protection tools to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>But while my confidence in     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"1025827\">Android\u2019s theft protection tools<\/span> has been shattered, I have a newfound understanding of how to protect my phone from thieves.    <\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tHow I bulletproof my Android phone against theft<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Good luck accessing anything on my phone<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"and-when-they-work-they-don-rsquo-t-go-far-enough\">\n            And when they work, they don\u2019t go far enough<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Theft Detection Lock, launched in March 2025, uses your phone\u2019s accelerometer, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi to detect theft. When activated, it locks your phone.<\/p>\n<p>The way Theft Detection Lock is meant to work is if you\u2019re in a public space (identified by whether you\u2019re connected to public Wi-Fi or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-security-features-on-my-android-phone-are-broken-apple-is-already-doing-them-better\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security features on my Android phone are broken, and Apple is already doing them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thief-stealing-a-smartphone-from-someone-s-pocket-with-android-theft-protection-alerts.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,57],"class_list":["post-262909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262911,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262909\/revisions\/262911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}