Factory reset protection is getting several key upgrades in Android 15 to make it harder to bypass.

This article goes into more detail about how these new measures will actually work compared to the blog post earlier this year from Google. Namely:

  1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will no longer prevent FRP from activating.
  2. Bypassing the setup wizard will no longer deactivate FRP. FRP restrictions will apply until you verify ownership of the device by signing in.
  3. Adding a new Google account is blocked.
  4. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
  5. Installing new apps is blocked.
    • piracysails@lemm.eeEnglish
      165·
      2 months ago

      Not eveyrone has or needs a google or any system-wide account to use their phones.

        • piracysails@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I should have provided more info. I am not defending that FRPs should not exist, rather that there should be an option to utilize them without an account.

          Graphene devs are considering using a random code similar to an account restoration.

          • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            That makes a lot of sense. I like the GrapheneOS approach to these things.

            I hope they can figure something out that’ll be user friendly that’s also recoverable if your forget the password. Wouldn’t want to put myself in a “lost my key, guess I can never sell my phone now” situation.

    • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
      83·
      2 months ago

      This assumes everything works fine. It’s probably an edge case, but on my Nexus 6P an update somehow messed with my encryption keys, and the screen lock pattern that I’d used for over a year stopped getting recognised. I can’t remember the solution but I vaguely remember having to factory reset. Whatever the solution was, it wasn’t too different to what a thief would do… I was bypassing the screen lock after all.