This month, Google launched Android 15 Beta 1 stable, which was followed by a small upgrade. Thus far, everything has been rather stable. If you have been paying careful attention, you may already be aware of the numerous privacy-related capabilities that Android 15 offers. But according to recent changes made to the Android code, Android 15 may soon employ safeguards to keep your private data safe during screen recording. This is the method.
Since Android 13, Google has put a lot of effort into strengthening privacy when using Android’s built-in screen recorder. For example, Android 14 lets you record a particular app and not the entire screen.
However, there could still be things in an app the user could end up recording, which could pose a threat to their privacy.
That’s where Android 15’s new screen recording privacy options come in. Android expert Mishaal Rahman enabled a new option in Developer Options called Disable screen share protections. The feature’s description says “Turn off system protections for sensitive app content for upcoming screen share sessions”.
According to him, the toggle is connected to an internal function called “sensitive content protection,” which is turned off in the most recent Android 15 Beta. How apps might make use of this functionality is unknown.but it’s possible that the feature may blur certain parts of the screen during recording or screen-sharing.
Preventing Notifications from showing up would have sufficed. However, if notifications show up while screen recording, Google seems to wish to conceal the sensitive content for some reason. According to him, an external application such as Android System Intelligence could manage the task of concealing confidential data.