This article applies only to Google Workspace customers.
Android Device Policy enforces your organization’s security policies on your device to protect corporate data and make it more secure.
Requirements
- Android 6.0 Marshmallow or later device. Devices without work profile support are not supported.
- A device on which you're signed in to a Google Workspace account.
When the Android Device Policy is installed on your device, it can access your device's:
- Location—used to check for available WiFi networks, to align with security policies and offer a new network when needed.
- Phone—used for device registration and to report device IDs to your administrator.
- Camera (optional)—used to scan QR codes if your administrator enrolls the device for management.
What your administrator can do with Android Device Policy
Your administrator can:
- Set these security policies:
- Device password strength and required length
- Invalid passwords allowed before the device is wiped
- Recently expired passwords that are blocked
- Days before a device password expires
- Idle minutes before a device automatically locks
- Days device has not synced before wiping
- Application auditing
- Device encryption
- Remotely wipe a company-owned device
- Blocking of security-compromised devices
- Configure Wi-Fi networks and manage network access certificates. They might choose to hide a network's details so that only users who have the network name and password can connect to it.
- Block access to Google apps from your work account based on your device’s country or region, network, security settings, or operating system.
Where to find the device policy app
If needed, you can access the app in your device settings at Settings Google
Work
Device Policy.