- Google has launched a message function that allows you to use QR codes to verify the device of the person who is sending text messages.
- It is Google’s new security measure, which is designed to avoid impersonation scams.
- Google revealed last year that it would be implemented with users in 2025
It seems that a new security measure is on its way to Google messages, since the company has begun to implement a new QR code function in the latest beta version, which verifies the device of the person with whom it is chatting.
First seen by 9to5google, the new Google verification tool in messages aims to avoid supplant scams. Before, you can verify the contacts playing ‘Verify the encryption’, presenting an 80 -digit code that you can share with the other person to verify your device and vice versa.
Although Google Menses has always had a verification function, its new QR code approach provides a more convenient way to demonstrate the identity of the person with whom you are sending text messages. In that case, if someone went into a conversation that intended to be a contact, Google can verify if their device is verified and alert it if you suspect a strange activity.
The departure also states that Google will bring it to the Android 9+ devices this year, but where can you find it in the beta version?
If you have access, open the Google messages application and click on a conversation. When the contact name touches, it will open the details page, which shows the ‘end -to -end encryption section’, and want to touch ‘check the encryption’.
In addition to the existing code option of 80 digits, there will also be an option to scan the QR code of your contact. The messages will also ask you to ask the other person to scan your QR code in return, allowing Google to verify each device. To see the state of verification, you can see them in the ‘connected applications’ section of the device’s contacts application; However, this integration has not yet been lived, according to 9to5google.
Recently, the company has been working 24 hours a day to provide its very necessary messages of messages, such as its new function of ‘eliminating for all’, and now its security measures are being doubled.
In October last year, Google announced plans to improve spam protection in messages, after the addition of a subscription lack button to avoid unwanted spam messages and a confidential content warning tool, which were implemented in April. We hope that the QR function arrives before the end of the year, but an exact date has not yet been revealed.
