Android 15 will have a native mechanism to hide apps with sensitive information during screen casting. The vehicle Android Police discovered a native function hidden within the first Beta version of Google’s operating system that, if enabled, hides potentially sensitive content when sharing the screen.
According to the website, the name of the function is “Protection for sensitive content”. The tool would be a native solution, integrated into the system, which would apply a type of “censorship” to applications and notifications that may contain sensitive information — banking apps, messengers and social networks, for example.
Android 15 will inform the user when app content is restricted from viewing on broadcasts. (Image: Android Police/Reproduction)Source: Android Police/Reproduction
The new feature would serve to avoid receiving inappropriate messages from your boyfriend/girlfriend at times when you are broadcasting your cell phone screen in a meeting, for example.
In this sense, the solution would allow applications to block the transmission of content, but without user interference. Thus, developers could implement the barrier and protect their users from accidental exposure.
Within the Developer Options menu, Android Police also found an option called “Disable screen share protections”. In addition to the tool being linked to the native resource, the Its existence suggests that content censorship will be activated by default on phones running Android 15.
Under development
For now, the functions do not work as the names suggest and, if the feature is actually implemented, more signs of the tool should appear in the next updates.
It is important to note that it is a function under development, so it may not even leave the testing phase in Android 15. During testing periods, Google usually implements functions that it plans to launch on the platform, but without having a commitment to launch it on the platform. next update.
