Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
reason.com
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
  • odium@programming.devEnglish
    32·
    19 days ago

    Samsung users (not sure if it also applies to other android flavors):

    Go to settings>lock screen>secure lock>show lockdown option and turn it on.

    Now if you hold the power button for over a second, a menu pops up with an option to turn on lockdown mode. This disables all biometric unlock methods until the next time you unlock it.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      19 days ago

      You can also turn the phone off.

      Edit: and I also have this on my Pixel so this may apply to all versions of android