Security should be a top priority for Android users, especially knowing how we know that this operating system is the most attacked by hackers. Something that surely has to do with it being the most widely used in the world. With this adjustment that we bring you today we can increase the security of the mobile with updates.
For years we have received two types of updates on our Android phones, some are system updates, with performance improvements and new features, while there are also security updates, focused exclusively on improving the resistance to threats from our phone.
Check only for security updates
Well, having these two types of updates there are many mobiles that when we look for system updates look for both. The difference is that the security ones are more numerous , in fact it reaches at least one a month, so we have twelve a year. Well, there is a way to search only for new security related updates. It is something that we can easily do if your mobile has an almost pure version of Android, such as Android One phones. In this case it is Android One based on Android 10, where we can do the following:
- Enter the phone settings
- Select the “security” section
- Now click on “security update”
Once we press, we will see how the phone begins to look for new available system updates, but with the difference that it only looks for security patches , and also details the level of the security patch that is currently installed, or what is the same, It shows us the date of the security patch that is installed.
Thus we will have the possibility of keeping a detailed follow-up of the security updates that our phone has, and with which it could count in the event of finding new ones. This section of Android 10 security now offers us full control over the different aspects of phone security, since from here we can:
- Do a Google Play Protect analysis
- Find our device if it has been lost or stolen
- Access the security updates we have seen
- Update Google Play individually to the Google store, from this new update
In this way, the entire process of updating our phone with the latest security patches is easier and tidier, which after all are those that prevent us from being the target of hackers , since each patch brings solutions to each one of the detected vulnerabilities.