That security patch date on your Android phone is no longer the full story

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s new Security State libraries let apps check the security status of individual Android components instead of relying only on the overall security patch level. Apps can also check whether a security update is available and ready for installation, potentially prompting users before they perform sensitive tasks. A phone can now be recognized as protected even if its overall security patch date hasn’t changed, as long as it has received the sp