Android 17’s new App Lock might stop your notifications from spilling secre

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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority


TL;DR

• Android 17 is rumored to include a native App Lock feature.
• New code strings suggest that locked app notifications will show generic “New message” or “New notification” text instead of the usual notification content.
• It’s unclear whether the app name and icon in the notification will also be hidden.

We’re slowly and steadily marching towards the release of Android 17, which could come with new features such as a long-awaited native App Lock solution. We already have a decent idea of how this rumored feature would work, but there were a few unknowns, one of which was how the feature would handle incoming notifications from locked apps. Thanks to the Android Canary 2601 release, we have an answer.

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Within this new Android Canary build, we’ve spotted new strings that indicate how App Lock would handle notifications from locked apps:




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