Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone
MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee 2 months agoAndroid has a similar feature. It’s called “Lockdown mode” on the shutdown menu. Locks the phone and turns off any biometric unlocks.
Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone
MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee 2 months agoAndroid has a similar feature. It’s called “Lockdown mode” on the shutdown menu. Locks the phone and turns off any biometric unlocks.
Bonehead@kbin.social 2 months ago
Except it doesn't activate by mashing the power button 5 times. On my Pixel 8, that activates the emergency dialer that will automatically call 911 if you don't cancel the prompt in 5 seconds. I did not know that before. Probably a better use for that feature. It also points out the different ideologies of Apple vs Android.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My wife’s pixel 3(?) with a flaky power button had us wake up to cops knocking on the door because of that feature.
Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You can turn it off somewhere in the settings
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I poked around in the settings that afternoon to make sure it didn’t happen again.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On iOS, for SOS, Medical ID, and “slide to power off” you hold power and a volume button. That also disables biometric ID.
Today@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Push and hold to get the power menu on my 7.
Bonehead@kbin.social 2 months ago
On my 8, that just activates the Google assistant. To get to the power menu, you have to press power (oddly named button, to be honest) and vol up at the same time. But these are active acts that you have to think about and verify to make sure they did what they are supposed to. Mashing the power button 5 times is succinct. I don't have to guess how many seconds I've waited. I don't have to feel to make sure I'm hitting the vol up instead of vol down accidentally. I count 5 times, 6 to make sure, and I can drop it while being certain that it's going to call 911. That's what I want in an emergency. A quick distinct action that requires no guessing to make sure of works. It makes sense once you stop and think. Nothing else about the power button makes sense, but at least that part does.
Today@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try system - gestures - press power button. I have the choice of the power menu or the digital assistant.
tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On my Pixel 7 Pro, I press the power and volume up buttons simultaneously, then I can click Lockdown. Now my passcode is required to unlock the phone.
pirat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On my ditto (running GrapheneOS), the Lockdown option is accessible through the regular power button menu. When I press power+volumeUp it switches to silent mode. I don’t know if/where I changed this, since I can’t find the options when searching in settings.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If by “regular power button menu” you mean holding the power button for a couple seconds, that was changed at least on pixel devices to bring up some bullshit called “Gemini”, some AI from googie that I never got a chance to say no to. Power + volume up is now how we get to the power menu, because of course they would change the function everyone uses occasionally to a more obscure combination without notice
Tiefa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was mowing my lawn and learned about that feature. A nice ladies voice came through my bluetooth headphones asking if I needed help lol. You can change what the button spam does and I changed it to call my mom instead.