A combination of the calendar released by Google and experience from previous versions, He tells us that Android 15 will be released sometime between early and mid-October, almost certainly thanks to the Pixel 9 generation, which promises to be the biggest in the history of Google’s involvement in the smartphone market. So given this move, it seems increasingly likely that Google intends for future Android releases to also represent a significant leap with respect to Android 14.

With previous releases, firstly Developer Preview 1 and Developer Preview 2 were aimed exclusively at developers, and more recently the first public beta for all users who want to try it out, We already know about some news that will come from your handseither by features already available in it, or by in-depth analysis of the “guts” of said versions, looking for references to what’s to come.

Precisely in this sense, today we will find a novelty that will undoubtedly be greatly appreciated by users of this operating system, namely Android 15 will have a greater level of control over the permissions of apps with non-Google Play originswith what it calls Enhanced Confirmation Mode, an improvement over the limited settings feature that debuted in Android 13.

To fully understand what this enhancement is all about, It is essential to understand where we come from, which is what the limited configuration feature does that applies to apps that weren’t obtained via sideloading. And it’s actually quite simple, because we can sum it up by preventing these apps from getting certain system permissions by default, which can be particularly dangerous for users due to the access they provide.

So as an extension of this measure, in Android 15 we will see that if an app obtained through sideloading tries to access this type of permission, the operating system blocks this access attempt and also informs the user that it has acted in this sense, with the message that the authorization has been blocked for security reasons, a decision that will be made based on an XML file integrated into the operating system, which contains a white list.

Since the feature is not yet active in Android 15 beta versions, we don’t know if the operating system will allow the user to bypass the said block and authorize, given the potential risk involved, to grant the said permissions, and you also need to see Google’s policy regarding the inclusion of “allowed” in the whitelist because Both factors will play a key role in the final rating this new feature deserves.. So far, though, it’s pointing in the right direction.

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