Historically, Google releases a new Android version every year in late Q3/early Q4, and mandates that by mid-Q4, apps uploaded to the Play Store “target,” or are optimized to run on, the previous yea...
Updated Dec 19, 2023
Version 9.0
Blog Post
Password complexity setting is available now for Android 12+ devices.
There is no one place where the definition of Low complexity level is accurate, it is not in sync with the official Google documentation. Please fix this in the corresponding MS documentations (Day Zero Blog post, What's new in Intune, Android BYOD configuration profile and compliance policy settings lists).
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager#PASSWORD_COMPLEXITY_LOW
On the other hand, it is not clear if we need to create a new compliance and restriction policy for Android 12+ devices, or it is enough to edit the existing policies and set the desired complexity level.
The configuration profile and compliance policy settings pages recommend to create a NEW policy for Android 12+ devices, but do we really need to do this?
MC467614 post recommends update the policies where pw type and length configurations are in place to also set the desired pw complexity level.
Lastly, What's new in Intune documentation does not mention that the configured pw complexity level will apply to devices when new CP version is released in December.
If we update our existing policies to also set the pw complexity level (which is not stricter than the current pw type and length), should we face any user side effects for already enrolled Android 12+ devices when the new CP version is released?
Thanks