Starting from September 27, all smartphones running Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread or earlier will no longer be able to access Google services.
This was announced by the same company, explaining that the measure is designed to "protect the safety of users".
Those who try to access Google-owned apps after that date may encounter a username or password error message.
Among the most used, which fall within the limit, there are YouTube, Maps, Gmail but also Drive and Keep notes synchronized on the cloud.
It must be said that the problem will manifest itself when you try to access an app with a username and personal key, while those who are already authenticated could continue to use the platforms without major difficulties. However, it is not certain that Google, precisely to preserve the digital safety of customers, cannot push, remotely, a logout to the software, thus making a new access impossible. As anticipated by the US group, the move is a consequence of the impossibility of updating an operating system that is more than ten years old and that does not support many of the security innovations, released later.
Just think of biometrics, which allows you to log in to your account using face recognition or fingerprint reading, a further defense procedure against hackers and cybercriminals.
