• Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 days ago

    On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose “lockdown”. The next unlock will require a PIN.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      “on Android” is a mostly useless statement. There are many flavours of it and they do not all behave the same. My phone does not have this.

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          12 days ago

          I have a motorola running LineageOS and it’s available on mine. Seems like a relatively standard option, though it may need to be enabled under Settings -> System -> Buttons (or whatever it looks like on your flavor of android).

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            11 days ago

            Just a note - most LineageOS installs aren’t secure unless you re-lock the bootloader, as data can be extracted with some fairly standard mobile phone forensics kits. Unfortunately, not many devices support bootloader re-lock. The Google Pixel series is a notable exception.

            Ideally, you would want a security hardened Android OS like GrapheneOS. Graphene only runs on Pixels as the development team specifically disallows it running on hardware with an unlocked bootloader for security reasons.

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          12 days ago

          Restarting should also disable biometrics until you put a pin in once

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        11 days ago

        IIRC, you have to enable it on some versions of Android. I don’t see the option to disable it on my Android 15 phone but I do recall having to enable it before on older versions. A quick Google search for your version should help.

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      12 days ago

      Fucking Gemini comes up for me now when I do that…

      Edit: there’s a system gesture setting to change it back. Search for power menu in settings.