Security News > 2020 > September > Android 11 — 5 New Security and Privacy Features You Need to Know

Roid security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google's failure to prevent malicious apps from being distributed through the Play Store, over-claim of permissions by apps, and privacy leakages.

This feature is not new in Android but was earlier only available to use while downloading a new app from the Google Play Store.

To tackle such scenarios, the new permission auto-reset feature of Android 11 empowers the mobile operating system to automatically reset sensitive runtime permissions for an app that the user has not used for a few months.

With Android 11, the company has increased the Google Play Store app's integration on the device, allowing it to download and install critical OS security patches as modules instantly-just like an app-from the Google servers.

One of the more significant privacy changes in Android 11 deals with further restricting apps' access to the device's background location.

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