a quick bulletpoint list if people just wanted a glance:
- quickshare compatible with airdrop(pixel, oppo, OP, vivo, xiaomi, honor)
- better ios to android migration (pixel and samsung)
- e2e RCS chat by default
- partnership with meta for deeper social network integration on instagram for sharing and uploading images
- digital wellbeing has a new feature to force a 10 second delay before you can decide to skip app time based locks
- verified financial calls with a few banks (revolut, itau and nubank at first)
- a live threat app detection model to detect malicious operations in apps realtime such as sms forwarding and using an assessibility overlay, with a new alert type system for suspicious app changes
- ability to block accessibility perms from apps that don't actually classify themselves as accessibility apps.
- messages containing OTP codes are now unable to be read by other apps for 3 hours after recieving. (im hoping this ignores the foreground app and the keyboard... else this will kill any app that offers to get the code for you)
- find my device now requires a second factor biometric auth(if one is setup) after marking a device as lost, in case the thief knew the code
- less invalid attempts allowed for unlocking
- IMEI is now available from the lockscreen by default
- remote lock and theft detection lock are now defaulted on
- session based location permission ability like how accessing camera works
- status bar indicator when a non-foreground app is accessing the devices location
- population detection when providing location so if you are in a low population it appoximates automatically
- a contact picker so it doesn't need full contact access to see a contact (this will be required to be used from October, 28th on)
- the carrier can now change the 2g toggle setting
- critical google owned software can now be verified against a public ledger to make sure the software is genuine
- even more OS verification requirements for the device to show as a verified OS (android 17)