In Android, it is common for our application list to inflate and not only for the applications that we install from Play Store: Google, to add features and improve the operation of the smartphone, install Critical components Like Android System Intelligence or Android System WebView. Now comes a new guest on the phone you may have seen.
It's about Android system SAFETYCOREAn application that suddenly appeared on the phones of many users. Do not fear, it is not a virus or a type of malware. In fact, as you can imagine, it comes from Google itself and provides certain public services to the operating system and therefore to our mobile.
What is the Android Safetycore system and why it was installed
For a few months, there are users who have noticed a change on their Android phone: a new application with the name of Android System Safetycore suddenly appeared. If you are informed of updates to the Google Play system and the other applications that we mention before, you will know that the news presented us It's from google.
Application card on Google Play Store
Well, as happened in the past with others, Android System SafetyCore It is installed without requesting permissionYou can even take it and you haven't heard. First of all, we recommend that we do not alert ourselves for arrival, because it is not a malicious application; Second, it is important that you know that it can be uninstalled.
Now, what is it really for? Google presented this application in order to detect confidential and sensitive content In a home service: “Google messages”. Your task, scan messages for information or private content to censor them.
In addition, you can not only see it on your phone, but also on your Android TV or Google TV television: the registration of modifications of one of the latest updates of the Google Playa system which reaches smartphones and the branch Android TV (fundamentally, Android TV).
This application is accompanied in addition to another from Google, which counts less: the key verifier of the Android system is aimed at developers. This, by the way, it is also ininstated. Of course, they will not take too much space in the internal memory, so maybe you have not noticed that you wear them: SAFETYCORE occupies 44.07 MB and key verifier of approximately 10.72 MB (proven in a pixel) although it can vary depending on the device.
Although we have commented on its direct application in “Google Messages”, this system service could be integrated into the future in other applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram. Currently, the only official information comments on very little of a sacetycore.
Android System SAFETYCORE (com.google.android.safetyCore) is a component of the Android system which provides applications with an integrated user protection infrastructure in the device that preserves confidentiality.
Did an application called Android System Safetycore appear on your Android? You can uninstall it without worries
Do you need space on your mobile? In case you have little internal storage memory, You can uninstall it without fear. Nothing keeps working or your phone will no longer be unsure. In addition, if you want to save a little more “mega”, you can also eliminate the key auditor. They uninstall like other applications: from “Adjustments”> “Applications”.
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