After an announcement of the feature last month, Google Drive’s Privacy Screen feature shows up on the iPhone and iPad. The feature allows you to add extra security to Drive by requesting for Face ID or Touch ID authentication whenever anyone tries to open the app on your device.
Here’s how to make sure you get the extra security for your Google Drive files right now:
After enabling this option, Google Drive will automatically activate as soon as you switch to another app and come back. However, the app emphasises that the Privacy Screen feature might not protect all aspects of your files on Google Drive.
Privacy screen doesn’t protect notifications, certain Siri functionality, files shares in the Files app, photos shares in the Photos app and “other system functionality”. They also mention that “your shared data might still be available through Internet browsers and other apps”.
iPhones and iPads should already have privacy abilities like passcodes, Touch ID and Face ID but with this added measure, your important work documents or sensitive personal files will be kept further away from snooping eyes. Several years ago, Google Drive offered passcode protection, but the feature was pulled. There has also been a wide interest in securing Google Drive files, previously.
The added feature isn’t currently available for Android phones yet, despite Google’s own mobile platform supporting fingerprint and face scanning.
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