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Instead of fumbling with your phone to turn ~~on~~ off biometrics just hold down the power button and reboot. Takes seconds and doesn't look suspicious.
Next unlock will force a pin and skip biometrics. At least on android.
On my pixel phone, it's a two step process, but you can press power and volume up. Then you choose Lockdown, and it requires a pin for the next time.
This is the Worst new "feature" I got when upgrading from pixel 4a to 8.
5 clicks of sleep/wake on iPhones also trigger the pin unlock. Also easy to do while in your pocket.
Tried it. Why do the police want me to set up Bixby?
I just tried holding the power button down on my android and it doesn't reboot the phone. I think they got rid of that feature and replaced it with opening up the useless Google Assistant crap.
You can change this in the settings to make the power button a power button again.
It depends on the phone. On my Samsung phone, my only options for holding the power button are to wake bixby or bring up a lockdown menu.
Genius tip, thx
You need to turn them off, not on. The police can force you open your phone with them, but they can't force you to use a code or pattern since that is proprietary.
that was in error. i meant off. i updated it.
the reboot thing would force a pin to unlock. as you stated it doesn't allow fingerprint to unlock.