Google Pay will have facial recognition and incognito mode

Google Pay is about to launch a new version although, visually, you probably won't notice too many changes. However, what is interesting about this new update is that it comes prepared for incognito mode in the near future and will also allow you to log in using facial recognition. Both advances are important, as incognito mode will allow you to make purchases in private without being recorded in your transaction history and facial recognition will enable mobile payments in the future Pixel 4according to the latest rumors.

Both features are not yet active in the application for everyone, although they are already present in the code of the application as indicated in Android Police and a small group of users may already be using them testing. All you have to do to try your luck is update the application with the latest APK, if you are within the selected group you will have access to these news.

Incognito mode in Google Pay

Little by little, all Google applications have incorporated incognito mode, even YouTube has its own. This mode allows us to use the application without the information being saved and that is exactly what Google Pay will allow, a mode focused on the privacy of all transactions what do you do It will be activated by a switch and will ignore payments made while the switch is activated. What we don't know is whether mobile payments will appear on the bank statement with the name of the business or if they will also be hidden under a code code.

Imagine that you want to surprise your wife for her anniversary, with incognito mode you can hide the payment you have made and she won't find out ahead of time.

Google Pay prepares to work with facial recognition

The other new thing that is available in Google Pay is preparations so that the application can unlock mobile payments using facial recognition as security measure, since to date Google Pay was only unlocked with the fingerprint and the PIN code, since facial recognition is not a safe method at all. Everything seems to indicate that the next Google Pixel 4 will have 3D facial recognition, much more secure and equivalent to Apple's Face ID.

This facial recognition may only work on those phones with fully secure facial recognition, and not on all those that use the camera to unlock the mobile, putting the capital of our bank account at risk.

In addition to these two key new features, some advances are also included in the application that prevent the use of Google Pay if SafetyNet is not working as it should, displaying messages that warn us of the danger of using the platform mobile payments with a rooted phone or a modified ROM. If you want to try your luck, install the latest Google Pay APK by clicking here.