For my apps, I use biometric unlocks. To get in passed the lock screen to get onto my phone's home screen, I have to enter a pattern. I figure that if they're already passed the pattern, more pattern won't stop any unauthorized user. So, it really isn't worth the inconvenience to enter the pattern for all my apps (like banking, cc, investments, etc.) over and over. But, if they can't figure out my pattern after so many tries, my phone auto-erases.

I prefer grapheneos's numeric pin+fingerprint or alphanumeric password. Plus I get to brag that I have MFA on my phone login (even if you can use only the password).

Just also stop saving critical stuff on your phone you’ll never use nor open again. A good mailbox is an empty mailbox, empty signal chat and so on. With AI it is leaking any away possibly out your phone

People, if you are taken into custody and are forced to unlock the phone and you wipe the phone instead, you are living in a fantasy world if you think you can't get in trouble for that.

Maybe that's worth it but let's not kid ourselves that there wouldn't be consequences.

Remember plausible deniability is a social concept not a legal one. It might of helped you get out of being grounded but it won't save you from jail time.

I only use a 10-digit pin number I'm guaranteed to never forget. I type it in every time. But, I don't spend much time on my phone, sometimes I even forget it when I leave the house.

That's a great idea but let's not forget that this administration and it's poorly-trained attack dogs might try and justify the password hammer

You could set it up so that only your left pinky works. After they try the other more likely fingers they're just going to figure it didn't work.