Google announced new Android anti-fraud features on October 14, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that will roll out in the coming weeks: with it enabled, conversations with unknown senders are sent to cloud-based Gemini models to detect a scammer's intent earlier. Google says the analysis runs in Private AI Compute, where messages stay encrypted and out of reach even for Google, while on-device Gemini Nano checks unfamiliar links before users tap them, initially on Pixel 10 and later devices, the Galaxy S26 series and the Galaxy Z Flip/Z Fold8. Other changes include automatically hiding login and payment fields in Chrome and Android WebView during screen sharing (rolling out this month on Android 15 and later), blocking apps from silently enabling call forwarding from early December with a warning for typed codes, and verified financial calls with banks such as Banco do Brasil, Itaú Unibanco and Revolut. Google says Scam Detection already flags more than 5 million suspected scam calls and texts each month, and chat-notification scam alerts will expand from Pixel phones to devices from Honor, Motorola, OPPO, OnePlus, Realme, Tecno, vivo and Xiaomi.

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