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

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FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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⚠️ WARNING: On android, mashing the power button 5 times calls emergency services…

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then_three_more@lemmy.world
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On android you can add a ‘lockdown’ mode to the power menu.

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🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.website
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Thanks for this, didn’t know this was an option.

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PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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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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UnityDevice@startrek.website
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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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Victor@lemmy.world
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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.

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

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Victor@lemmy.world
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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
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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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FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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They disabled it . I don’t understand why they even commented. It reads like some weird flex

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Victor@lemmy.world
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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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