Windows 10: Google Android 11 rolling out to Pixel devices first

Brink · Sep 11, 2020

A few times a year, your Pixel receives a boost with software updates that send new features, tricks, and apps to your phone. And this time, with new Pixel-first features on Android 11, your Pixel has even more smarts to make it better and more helpfulâlike giving you new ways to control your media and organize your apps, and making it easier to communicate with friends and family. And it all comes with privacy as a priority. Everything happens over the air, so you get that new-phone feeling over and over again.

Prioritize people, with Pixel

Beginning today, new Android 11 features are hitting Pixel first to help you focus on connecting with those close to you, whether youâre meeting in a park for a socially distant picnic, or quickly responding to your loved onesâ texts.

You can now use Live View with Location Sharing in Google Maps to easily meet up with friends IRL. If your friends have chosen to share their location with you, simply tap on their icon and then on Live View on the right side of your screen. Youâll see where they are in relation to you, along with how far away they are. Tapping on start will then show you arrows and directions placed right on top of your world so you can see exactly which way to go.

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The new Smart Reply on your Pixelâs keyboard makes typing effortless by giving you helpful suggestions when youâre using chat apps. And itâs all processed on your phone to protect your privacy. (Right now this is available in English only and requires use of Gboard. Itâs not available for all chat apps.)

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[b]Get more control over your phone[/b]

Now your Pixel can make app suggestions based on your daily routines so you can quickly get to tools you need, when you need them. Your phone will recommend apps you use at different times of the day, like Messages for your daily check-ins, Google Maps for your afternoon stroll or the media apps you use in the evening to help you wind down from a busy day.

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Your Pixel will also give you more convenient ways to select text and images, or take a screenshot with new overview actions. So whether youâre copying and pasting, saving or sharing the content you want, youâll have more options over how you select and engage with content on your Pixel.

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Make your Pixel as unique as you are, starting with your home screen. Now, your Pixel can help organize your phone with new intelligent suggestions for folder names. Quickly group apps by theme, like Photography, News, Navigation, Fitness and more.

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In addition to everything [b][url='https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/69861931?hl=en']coming to Pixel first[/url][/b], youâll also get all of the great new Android 11 features as well, giving you easier ways to manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy and beyond.

Android 11 begins rolling out to Pixel devices today; learn more about all of the Android 11 updates [url='https://blog.google/products/android/android-11'][b]here[/b][/url].

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RickShabsin · Sep 11, 2020

Google Pixel Phone Photos Not Showing Up as Thumbnails When Displayed in a Windows Explorer Folder

My phone is a 16GB Google Pixel phone running Android 8.0.0. At your suggestion, I tried several other devices, an old Samsung Galaxy III phone running Android 4.4.2 and a Nexus 7 tablet running Android 5.1.1 and they both properly displayed thumbnails
and not the blue Photoshop icons. This leads me to believe the problem is most likely with the Google phone's Android O/S, and possibly some recent upgrade they made to it. (Though I don't suppose it totally rules out a Windows 10 issue.) I'm going to submit
this information to the Google Pixel Community for their information to see if it's helpful to them.

Zima Blue · Sep 11, 2020

Enrolling Android Device in Intune - Google Account?

After doing my own research it appears this depends on what kind of Android device you want to enroll. Starting with:

Set up Android Enterprise work profile enrollments

Set up Android Enterprise dedicated device enrollments

Set up Android Enterprise fully managed enrollments

In my case, I wanted to enroll a fully-managed device:

Enroll Android Enterprise dedicated, fully managed, or corporate-owned work profile devices in Intune - Microsoft Intune

According to the above documentation:

*Admins or users are to: (5) On the Google sign-in screen, enter afw#setup instead of a Gmail account, and then choose
NEXT.*

The next step is to scan or input the Android enrollment token - Intune blade (Azure portal) > Device enrollment - Android enrollment > Android enrollment (under Manage) > Corporate-owned, fully managed user devices (Preview)

Brink · Sep 11, 2020

Passwordless FIDO2 verification on Android for Google Accounts

Passwords, combined with Google's automated protections, help secure billions of users around the world. But, new security technologies are surpassing passwords in terms of both strength and convenience. With this in mind, we are happy to announce that you can verify your identity by using your fingerprint or screen lock instead of a password when visiting certain Google services. The feature is available today on Pixel devices and coming to all Android 7+ devices over the next few days.

Simpler authentication experience when viewing your saved password for a website on passwords.google.com

These enhancements are built using the FIDO2 standards, W3C WebAuthn and FIDO CTAP, and are designed to provide simpler and more secure authentication experiences. They are a result of years of collaboration between Google and many other organizations in the FIDO Alliance and the W3C.

An important benefit of using FIDO2 versus interacting with the native fingerprint APIs on Android is that these biometric capabilities are now, for the first time, available on the web, allowing the same credentials be used by both native apps and web services. This means that a user only has to register their fingerprint with a service once and then the fingerprint will work for both the native application and the web service.

Note that your fingerprint is never sent to Google’s servers - it is securely stored on your device, and only a cryptographic proof that you’ve correctly scanned it is sent to Google’s servers. This is a fundamental part of the FIDO2 design.

Here is how it works

Google is using the FIDO2 capability on Android to register a platform-bound FIDO credential. We remember the credential for that specific Android device. Now, when the user visits a compatible service, such as passwords.google.com, we issue a WebAuthn “Get” call, passing in the credentialId that we got when creating the credential. The result is a valid FIDO2 signature.

High-level architecture of using fingerprint or screen lock on Android devices to verify a user’s identity without a password

Please follow the instructions below if you’d like to try it out.

Prerequisites

Phone is running Android 7.0 (Nougat) or later

Your personal Google Account is added to your Android device

Valid screen lock is set up on your Android device

To try it

Open the Chrome app on your Android device

Navigate to https://passwords.google.com

Choose a site to view or manage a saved password

Follow the instructions to confirm that it’s you trying signing in

You can find more detailed instructions here.

For additional security

Remember, Google's automated defenses securely block the overwhelming majority of sign-in attempts even if an attacker has your username or password. Further, you can protect your accounts with two-step verification (2SV), including Titan Security Keys and Android phone’s built-in security key.

Both security keys and local user verification based on biometrics use the FIDO2 standards. However, these two protections address different use cases. Security keys are used for bootstrapping a new device as a second factor as part of 2SV in order to make sure it’s the right owner of the account accessing it. Local user verification based on biometrics comes after bootstrapping a device and can be used for re-authentication during step-up flows to verify the identity of the already signed-in user.

What’s next

This new capability marks another step on our journey to making authentication safer and easier for everyone to use. As we continue to embrace the FIDO2 standard, you will start seeing more places where local alternatives to passwords are accepted as an authentication mechanism for Google and Google Cloud services. Check out to get an early glimpse of the use cases that we are working to enable next.

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