We need a Pause All Protection toggle on Kaspersky Premium Android phone app
Impossible to pause the entire protection of Kaspersky on a mobile phone to do some time sensitive troubleshooting! Feature request here.
What my AI says :
Kaspersky Premium's Android app doesn't have one master "pause everything" switch like the Windows version does — protection features are toggled individually:
Automatic Anti-Virus (core real-time scanning): open the app → tap Automatic Anti-Virus on the main screen.
Note this mainly lets you switch between Recommended/Extended scanning modes and manage schedules — the current mobile app doesn't offer a simple full off-switch for this component the way the desktop version does.
Kaspersky VPN: tap it on the main screen → Disable
Safe Browsing / Safe Messaging / App Lock / Where Is My Device: tap each feature and use its own on/off toggle
If you need everything stopped at once (e.g., to troubleshoot or free up resources), the blunt workaround is at the Android system level:
Settings → Apps → Kaspersky → Force stop. This isn't an official "pause" — protection resumes automatically the next time the app opens or the phone restarts, so it's a short-term fix, not a real pause.
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One more thing worth knowing if you're on a Galaxy device: Kaspersky's Android apps were pulled from Google Play, so users can't see if other people have similar issues or requests.