Question about android's anti-theft feature

[anon(10300249)]

Hi, I'm not very techy in mobiles so don't judge me if I ask silly question, but as I have heard Iphone has anti theft security and in case where your iphone gets stolen it cannot be used because you have your email assigned to the device, and not even a factory reset will take it off. Does Androids also have such feature where phone can be locked and even factory reset doesn't help? If yes, where I can check it?

 

[hallux]

There's really no way to check it. Here's an article on it though - https://www.androidcentral.com/factory-reset-protection-what-you-need-know

 

[anon(10300249)]

It's not the actually what my question was about. I mean, for example you got stolen your phone and thief tries to do hard reset with pressing some combinations on volume button + power button (from boot menu) and they can wipe out data & install new android and use phone, right? So my question is, if there is even better protection, more security so they can't do it & phone will be useless to others unless you login there?

I have heard such thing can't be done on iphone. Is it true?

 

[chanchan05]

It's not the actually what my question was about. I mean, for example you got stolen your phone and thief tries to do hard reset with pressing some combinations on volume button + power button (from boot menu) and they can wipe out data & install new android and use phone, right? So my question is, if there is even better protection, more security so they can't do it & phone will be useless to others unless you login there?

I have heard such thing can't be done on iphone. Is it true?

It's called Factory Reset Protection or FRP. It started being implemented on Android on the Lollipop version (5.0). So any Android 5.0 and up has that.

Basically what happens is if you got your phone stolen and the thief tries to factory reset it forcibly, the phone cannot be used until you enter the Google credentials that was logged in on the phone prior to the reset, making it essentially useless to the thief.

 

[hallux]

Actually, my post WAS about the feature that prevents a thief from stealing your phone, resetting it and using it for themselves. Factory Reset Protection is the same (in terminology anyway) as Apple's iCloud activation lock.

 

[anon(10300249)]

It's called Factory Reset Protection or FRP. It started being implemented on Android on the Lollipop version (5.0). So any Android 5.0 and up has that.

Basically what happens is if you got your phone stolen and the thief tries to factory reset it forcibly, the phone cannot be used until you enter the Google credentials that was logged in on the phone prior to the reset, making it essentially useless to the thief.

Oh so it has. That's great. Thx for information.