Upgrade Your Android Experience: 8 Must-Have Features Arriving with Android 15

During the avalanche of announcements in Mountain View, Google unveiled a plethora of AI advancements and upcoming changes to its products - including the new version of Android.

Android 15 will arrive later this year with its fair share of new features, without revolutionizing the system, as described by ZDNET.

Here are the new and improved Android 15 features:

Private Space allows you to lock away sensitive apps like banking or health, keeping their data and notifications completely hidden. It uses your fingerprint for security, but you can also set a custom lock. 

Google is making it easier for Android 15 developers to adapt their apps for larger displays on tablets and foldables.

The API provides tools to hide, reorder, and extend UI components based on the display, instead of just stretching/shrinking. This should result in more native-feeling apps on bigger Android screens.

Google Wallet in Android 15 will let you digitize physical cards, passes, and tickets into your phone to help load off all those everyday items from your physical wallet into your digital Google Wallet.

Android 15 will include a "Theft Detection Lock" feature that can detect if your phone has been stolen. If it senses suspicious motion like running, biking, or driving away, it will immediately lock the screen.

Android 15 comes along with unencrypted network notifications to alert users of potential cell-site simulator scams, and identifier disclosure transparency to help at-risk users detect cellular-based surveillance.

Android 15 will support devices using larger 16KB memory pages, which can result in performance improvements like snappier app launch times, improved power efficiency, faster camera app opening, and quicker phone startup.

Soon, Google Maps will get the ability to display AR content on your phone, which will help you learn more about the places you visit. It's still early stages, but Google says that AR experiences built for places in Singapore and Paris are on their way first.

Google is upgrading Find My Device with the ability to keep tabs on tracker tags from companies like Chipolo and Pebblebee. This means you'll be able to find your phone, earbuds, luggage, backpack, and more all from a single place, similar to Apple's Find My network on its platforms.