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The original was posted on /r/android by /u/MishaalRahman on 2023-08-07 20:40:00+00:00.

This flew under the radar, but Android 13’s unified Security & Privacy settings (AKA the “Safety Center”) rolled out to several non-Pixel devices in the last few months!

So far, I’ve seen it on:

  • Nokia X20
  • Nothing Phone 1
  • Nothing Phone 2
  • OnePlus 11

For a bit of context, Google announced the unified security & privacy settings back at I/O 2022. With the launch of the Pixel 7 in October, Google said this feature would be “coming soon first to Pixel devices later this year, and other Android phones soon after.”

The unified security & privacy settings page indeed rolled out to other Pixel devices with their December 2022 Pixel Feature Drop, but there wasn’t any word on when we’d see it on other devices running Android 13.

The feature has quietly begun to show up on non-Pixel devices. The Nothing Phone 1 received it with its OS 1.5.4 update, while the Phone 2 shipped with it, as I noted in my Nothing OS 2.0 review.

Meanwhile, the OnePlus 11 added the feature with its OxygenOS 13.1.0.580 update (H/T 1NormalUsername on Twitter). This isn’t mentioned in the official changelog, but users have reported it on their forums. As for the Nokia X20, I’m not sure when it received it, but a user on my Telegram group said they had it and posted a screenshot of it.

Safety Center is part of the Permission Mainline module, specifically the PermissionController app. Its configuration is provided by the SafetyCenterResources app. Its presence is controlled by two flags: config_enableSafetyCenter and safety_center_is_enabled. config_enableSafetyCenter defaults to true in AOSP, however safety_center_is_enabled is a DeviceConfig flag that’s controlled server-side by Google Play Services. Meaning, Google decides which devices should have the feature.

How does Google decide what devices to enable the feature on? I reached out to Google last week to find out but haven’t heard back yet, however, OnePlus may have let slip a key detail: It may be required for certain “tiers” of Android devices. While they were looking through logcat on the OnePlus 10 Pro, 1NormalUsername discovered this interesting line:

07-28 15:55:43.563  1000  5011  5011 W SafetyCenterManagerWrap: isEnabled: version is not RSA4.0 T3, don't support safety center.

This suggests that “Tier 3” devices under v4.0 of the Revenue Sharing Agreement between Google & OnePlus must support Safety Center. I’m not sure if Tier 3 is defined similarly in all RSAs between Google & OEMs, but this may explain why it’s only available on some devices.

The Nothing Phone 2 is categorized as a “Premier” tier GMS device, and it does ship with a ton of optional Google app prebuilts, so it could also fall under similar terms. No way for me to find out, though!

In any case, it’s possible this feature will become more broadly available in Android 14, as Safety Center is enabled by default in AOSP builds of Android 14. It likely won’t be mandatory, though, and I’m guessing many OEMs will disable it or implement their own (like Samsung).