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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (18 children)

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

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (5 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!

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (4 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?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Which Android version are you on?

    10 qkq1.190910.002

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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/

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years 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. 🤷‍♂️

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