Google backs down on default data encryption in Android 5.0 Lollipop

Google added phone data encryption under Android 5.0 Lollipop in a clear way to protect the user in the event of possible loss or theft of your precious terminal. What at first seemed like a great novelty, has finally become a nuisance due to the lack of performance when this encryption is activated for even on a phone like the great Nexus 6.

So from the looks of it Google has quietly revised the Android 5.0 requirements so that the manufacturers themselves decide whether to activate encryption complete terminal. This ability to have the phone completely encrypted came in an agreement to give more security to users in case it fell into someone else's hands, so we will have to wait for it to solve those performance problems to have this capacity.

Data encryption by default

This encryption means that new smartphones that have Android 5.0 Lollipop would have this option instead of the old one from previous versions of Android. This encryption possibility led at the time, when it was announced by Google and Apple, to some controversy on the part of the US police for not being able to use a phone when it was activated.

Just in case

Google does not want the new terminals, which may not have a higher performance As they are not high-end, they have problems with data encryption by default, so it is up to the manufacturers to decide whether to activate it as soon as it is purchased by the user. It must be borne in mind that at first this functionality appeared only in the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, while the other Nexus devices already on the market such as the 5 or 7 had encryption disabled by default.

Moment no official announcement by Google is known in this sense so we will have to wait if he comments on this decision to quietly backtrack on what is full data encryption by default.