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Pixel phones will be able to detect and report malicious apps in real time

Google versus the bad guys. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

Google is beefing up its malware detection with new protections designed to suss out ever-sneakier bad actors.

Android’s Google Play Protect service is getting an update called live threat detection which seeks out potentially harmful apps on your phone by analyzing app behavior and alerts you in realtime if something looks fishy. The update was first announced at Google I/O earlier this year and is available now to Pixel 6 and newer phones. It should come to additional non-Pixel Android phones from Lenovo, OnePlus, Nothing, and Oppo, among others “in the coming months.”

Live threat detection targets particularly hard-to-spot malware apps that hide their intentions well. Rather than just scanning apps for malicious code when you…

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