When Android 5.0 Lollipop launched, Google proudly claimed that full-disk encryption was a standard feature , enabled by default. But now phones with the OS are starting to appear in the wild, that appears not to be the case.
Google spoke about the feature at launch. As Ars Technica points out, it told The Washington Post that “encryption will be enabled by default out of the box, so you won’t even have to think about turning it on.” In a blog post, it explained that a user data partition would be created at first boot, with encryption “on by default from the moment you power on a new device running Lollipop.”
