Google enables Password Checkup on Android, launches five usability features
Google has developed six new features for Android (and Android Auto) that will make your phone safer and easier to use. These are available for fairly old phones, ones running Android 9 and even Android 6 in one instance. Here’s what’s new.
Password Checkup will let you know if your password was exposed
Google added the Password Checkup feature in Chrome back in 2019. Basically, Google keeps track of hacks that expose passwords – those passwords are now unsafe as hackers can easily try to use them to log in.
Now when you enter a password into an app using Autofill, you will get a warning if that password has leaked and instructions on what to do next. This feature is working on phones running Android 9 and above.