Watching for periods of physical inactivity, Doze throttles back system services and apps, waking up a device when it's needed. A new power-management tool, called Doze, uses motion detection to monitor device usage of an unplugged phone or tablet. Backups are encrypted on Drive, Google says, and the data does not count toward your storage quota.īetter power management: Marshmallow holds the promise of better battery management.
And you will have control over what gets backed up.
In earlier versions, Android backed up only settings associated with your account. And with better support for fingerprint recognition, Android Pay, Google's mobile payment platform, can use a phone's fingerprint sensor to authorize transactions.Īpp data backup: Marshmallow will back up and store app settings and other data in your Google Drive account. So, for example, you can view and control which apps have access to the camera.īroader fingerprint recognition: Third-party apps can now take advantage of fingerprint recognition, allowing you to use a fingerprint to authenticate actions. You also can modify individual settings after you've installed an app and view by function which permissions you've granted. For example, when you launch Google's Keep, the app can ask you for permission to record audio. Now Marshmallow will let you grant - or not grant - specific permissions for a Marshmallow app when it seeks to use a feature. Prosįiner permission control: In previous editions of Android, before you download and install an app, you have to deal with a slab of permissions. Android 6.0, aka Marshmallow, seeks to give users great control over what apps are doing behind the scenes and to do a better job of managing device power consumption.
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