Your Android phone is getting these 4 new anti-scam features

Google is bringing more scam protections to Android and Google Messages. Your Android phone is getting these 4 new anti-scam features.

Google will tell if you a scammer is trying to message you and will protect your banking details from prying eyes while sharing your screen. Android will use Gemini to warn you about scammy messages.

Big Tech Google Android will use Gemini to warn you about scammy messages Google announced new scam and privacy protection tools for Android. Toggling on the setting will enable Scam Detection, which taps into Google’s most advanced Gemini models to evaluate the sender’s intent and warn you if the messages could be coming from a bad actor.

In Google’s example, the sender pretended to show the recipient a photo of them with their dog. Upon being told that they had the wrong number, the sender tried to engage and asked the recipient their name.

The company explained that Android analyzes messages in Private AI Compute, which encrypts them and processes them in a secure space inaccessible to anybody else, even Google. Gemini Nano will also do on-device analysis of links in Messages to make sure they’re safe before you tap on them.

This will be available on Google Pixel 10+, the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Fold 8, among other select devices. Google has redesigned its scam warnings to give you more context and extra time before tapping on links sent from numbers not in your contacts list.