What's new in Android Enterprise: Android 15

With Android theft protection, employees can shield sensitive business information from theft. These features include:

• Theft Detection Lock: When machine learning detects an unlocked device getting snatched, the device automatically locks itself to protect sensitive information.
• Offline Device Lock: If a device disconnects from the network for a set period of time, the device screen automatically locks.
• Remote Lock: In the case of theft or a missing device, users can remotely lock their device screen by going to android.com/lock and entering their own phone number.

Within the personal profile, a private space offers a locked folder that requires a password or biometric input to unlock.

Employees can protect their personal data while traveling or working in public by storing sensitive apps like banking, financial, and healthcare applications in a private space on their work device. This helps prevent accidental or intentional access to personal information when sharing the device with colleagues.

To comply with the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) standards, IT admins can quickly review administrative device changes. This facilitates the identification of sources of attack, reconstructing events, and identifying vulnerabilities.

Android's eSIM management facilitates seamless provisioning and removal of eSIMs on managed devices, enhancing operational efficiency by streamlining employee onboarding and offboarding. Employees retain control over which eSIM is active on their personal devices and have the option to remove the enterprise eSIM if desired.

Android 15 for business introduces the ability to apply a limited set of security restrictions to specific apps outside the Work Profile. Existing personal app allowlist or blocklist policies can be extended to the new private space feature*. In the future, additional privacy preserving security configurations for core apps will be introduced and made backward compatible with Android 15.

IT admins can enforce the default apps for the dialer, messaging, and browser and prevent end users from modifying them. To ensure that the defaults for the dialer and browser are set, this feature should be configured before setup. To enforce defaults after setup, the control must be used with an app allowlist.

With Circle to Search, employees can improve productivity within work apps by easily searching for more information with a simple gesture. IT admins can manage this feature on fully managed devices and within the Work Profile.

IT admins can configure screen brightness, brightness mode, and timeout duration for company-owned, personally enabled devices. Additionally, they can prevent users from making changes to these settings, ensuring consistency across all devices. This can help optimize energy consumption and extend battery life.