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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 6 months ago (68 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.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (18 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 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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