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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 201 points 7 months ago (69 children)

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 79 points 7 months ago (3 children)

⚠️ WARNING: On android, mashing the power button 5 times calls emergency services.....

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 7 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

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 7 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.

[+] victorz@lemmy.world -14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️ It just does what I told it to do, namely to open the camera.

Edit: these are some Reddit down votes. I just didn't know I had this feature, and I apparently have disabled it, but I don't remember doing so. Oh well.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 points 7 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.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for defending me. ❤️ They were correct though. Apparently I had the setting disabled, but I don't remember doing so. Must have been years ago on another phone? And then carried over when settings migrated? I don't know when this feature was introduced. But yeah. It's a thing.

But obviously not universal if you don't have it. Which Android version are you on?

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which Android version are you on?

10 qkq1.190910.002

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, that's probably why, eh? Android 10 is quite old, right?

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

might be. might also be miui thing, i don't know.

the fact remains that (android does x) does not equal to (some subset of android does x)

edit: seems the function was added in adroid 12 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/uk-police-blame-android-for-record-number-of-false-emergency-calls/

which means that as of right now it is available to 60% of android users - https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobile/worldwide/

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah 60% is far from every device lol. But it's still a good warning I guess. 😅

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -1 points 7 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. 🤷‍♂️

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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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