Password policies quality

This page summarizes documentation provided for PasswordRequirements.PasswordQuality and represents how passwordRequirements instances are chosen to be applied based on the device management mode.

Complexity-based requirements are COMPLEXITY_LOW, COMPLEXITY_MEDIUM and COMPLEXITY_HIGH.
Quality-based requirements are all other requirements except PASSWORD_QUALITY_UNSPECIFIED.

Prior to Android 12

Quality-based settings are always selected for all scopes if present.

Android 12 and later

Behavior depends on the device management mode.

Fully managed devices

Device scoped quality-based setting is always applied if present.

Company-owned work profile devices

The first two columns represent which password settings are specified in the policy. The last two columns represent which password settings are chosen to be applied.

Device-scoped setting	Profile-scoped setting	Applied device-scoped setting	Applied profile-scoped setting
Complexity & Quality	Complexity & Quality	Complexity	Complexity
Complexity & Quality	Quality	Quality	Quality
Complexity & Quality	None	Quality	None
Quality	Complexity & Quality	Not allowed
Quality	Quality	Quality	Quality
Quality	None	Quality	None
None	Complexity & Quality	None	Complexity
None	Quality	None	Quality
None	None	None	None

Personally owned work profile devices