- Android 15 may add an adaptive timeout option that automatically turns your device’s screen off when you aren’t using it.
- It’s important to lock your Android device when you aren’t using it so that nobody else can get access to your apps and data.
- Android’s screen timeout feature turns your device’s screen off and then locks it after a set period of time.
Google will release the next major version of the Android operating system, Android 15, sometime this fall, and we’ve already uncovered many of its new security and privacy features. These include a new Private Space for your sensitive apps, added protection from rogue “stingray” devices, better control over when your location is shared with cellular networks, automatic redaction of one-time passwords (OTPs) from notifications, and more. Given there are still four preview builds left before Android 15’s stable release, there are bound to be even more security features that haven’t been added or discovered yet. One such feature we’re expecting to see in an upcoming beta release is called adaptive timeout.
If you have a screen lock enabled on your device (and you really should), Android will automatically lock your device after a set period of time has passed. By default, Android turns the screen off after 30 seconds of inactivity and then locks the device after an additional five seconds has passed. These thresholds can be changed by going to Settings > Display > Screen timeout and Settings > Security & privacy > Device unlock > Screen lock settings, respectively.