Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

• then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On android you can add a ‘lockdown’ mode to the power menu.

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  • USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for this, didn’t know this was an option.

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  • PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    on my phone lockdown mode is found by pressing side button and power up at the same time, then selection lockdown from the menu

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool, you disabled the gesture. Clearly the default SO setting doesn’t apply to you…

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have to tried? On my Samsung pressing twice does the camera (as I’ve set it to) but doing 5 times tries to call emergency services.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They disabled it . I don’t understand why they even commented. It reads like some weird flex

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      • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right, correcting your incorrect information is “weird flex”. What are you, five?

        On my Mi Max 3 it does not work as well. In “configure buttons” section of menu there is no call emergency number action, neither is there press any button five times trigger available. So clearly the function your phone has is not universal. What a wild world do we live in!

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      • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know how it sounds like a weird flex. I was just asking. I don’t remember if it was something you could disable or not from when I had my pixel 5.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

        It’s not a flex… 🙄 I was just confused about how it seemed so established that this was an “Android” feature, so should be activated on my phone too, but it isn’t. And now that I see I have the functionality disabled but people say it’s the default, I’m even more confused because I don’t remember even seeing this setting. 🤷‍♂️

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did, yeah. Gotta test before commenting, of course. I see I have the setting disabled for some reason. Don’t recall disabling it though.

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• UnityDevice@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they’re not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.

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