ByDavey Winder,
Senior Contributor.
With the highly anticipated and much heralded iOS 26.1 update about to bring a game-changing new security feature to iPhones, while headlines abound regarding Android security warnings concerning humanized password stealers and Samsung Galaxy S25 hacks, you may well be wondering where the notion that Android is safer than iOS comes from. The answer is Google, well sort of. A new blog from Google’s Android and Messages teams has revealed the results of newly published independent research from Counterpoint Research, detailing how Android is leading the way when it comes to protections against phishing, malware and theft. Here’s what you need to know.
Pulling the headline statistics out of the Google posting, the YouGov research found that Android users were 20% more likely than iOS users to say the scam protection provided by their smartphone was either very or extremely effective. For Pixel users, the stat was even more profound: when it came to saying their device was not effective at all in stopping mobile fraud, iPhone users were 150% more likely to come to this conclusion. YouGov also found that more than half as many, 58%, of Android users said they had not had any scam texts in the previous week, and 65% more iPhone users reported being on the receiving end of three or more such scam texts.
