Fingerprint is great, you can easily unlock your device authenticate a purchase and do other great things. Fingerprint offers great convince but it may be less secure than a strong PIN, pattern, or password. A copy of your fingerprint could be used to unlock your phone. So what this app allows you to disable fingerprint at lock screen preventing someone from accessing your phone.
You might be thinking .... Wait a minute why would i need to disable fingerprint, Its secure, unique and only i have access to my fingerprints. Well you are right. But in some scenarios you can be forced or someone can use your fingerprint without your knowledge and can do harm to your device.
Scenario 1 :
Assume you are living in a joint family or in hostel or in some similar situation and while you are sleeping, someone can easily access your phone by using your fingerprint.
Or simply you have smaller brother/sister who just plays game all night with your phone by unlocking you device with your fingerprint.
Scenario 2:
Assume you are in a situation where you can be forced to unlock your device using fingerprint. In such situation you can prevent someone from accessing your device(assuming you already disabled fingerprint using the app ). Now some of you might argue , in such situation we can be forced to give up pin/pattern/password. You are right but revealing pin/pattern/password is up to you where as someone can be easily forced to unlock there device with fingerprint.
I can't mention every possible scenario where this app can be useful, but i this app is useful to you i would love to hear your story.
How to use
- Lock you device using this app
Your device is now locked and fingerprint will no longer work. Now you are required to enter your pin/pattern/password to unlock your device.
- Unlock your device with pin/pattern/password
Fingerprint is enabled again after unlocking with pin/pattern/password for normal use again.
Its that simple!!!
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So, I've just got my Xperia Z5 yesterday and today I was configuring the fingerprint reader.
After I've finished it I've tried to unlock the phone using the fingerprint and everything works great!
The thing is, when I use any non registered finger it fails to unlock, as it's supposed to do, but, after it fails if I just slide up the lockscreen, the phone unlocks normally.
Is this the expected behavior? I mean, I thought it was supposed to ask for the security pin if the fingerprint didn't get recognized.
Thanks for your help.
I think you have either a Trusted Location or a Trusted Device added/connected in the Smart Unlock
When fingerprint fails, it's supposed to lock fingerprint scanning and ask for password or PIN depending on your setup
komugi said:
I think you have either a Trusted Location or a Trusted Device added/connected in the Smart Unlock
When fingerprint fails, it's supposed to lock fingerprint scanning and ask for password or PIN depending on your setup
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OMG, I feel completely dumb... It was my Smartwatch 3 added as trusted device, I can't believe I haven't think of that.
Thank you very much for your help solving this non-problem, I was getting crazy over it. xD
How do i setup only fingerprint reader to unlock my phone? I can only seem to have it ask for pin,swipe or password after reading fingerprint
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You can't, you must have a backup method. If you just want a fingerprint unlock set it to be a bunch of random numbers for a pin and forget them.
You need a backup in case the phone ever has trouble reading your fingerprint. Also, the phone will ask for your backup whenever it restarts.
Bad idea to use just fingerprint. I was working with food and water bare handed and afterwards the fingerprint scanner couldn't recognize my fingers until they un-shriveled
Also when the phone reboots in needs a back up to re enter ...Or if you fill the fingerprint more then five times
As others have mentioned, but I'll say again. You can't/shouldn't for many reasons, such as:
You need to enter your PIN/Pattern when your phone reboots.
You need to unlock your phone with gloves on, wet hands, dirty hands, or otherwise the reader is unusable.
You need to unlock your phone with the phone flat on a surface.
You need to ever reset your phone.
You need to change private information like Android Pay, Play Store Purchases, etc. that need at least an initial PIN/password to use.
So just to clear this up, you don't have two lock screens right? You don't have to use fingerprint then use pin to unlock?
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I'm wondering if there is any way to use Android pay without a secure lock screen. I currently have magisk and can get Android pay working, it's just that I hate having a secure lock screen.
Ideally, I'd like to keep the "swipe" lockscreen and have Android pay working.
If there's a better forum, let me know. Thanks!
The best I can say is using smart Lock. I use my citizen smart watch - as long as it's connected, no secure lock. You can use location, face matching, on body detection (so until it's still and flat on a table). All usable without root. The only thing that can stop this from working is an exchange policy from something like a work email account.
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Occasionally, while on call, or when I open my phone, I get this message (image below)
"Password required for additional security"
I have fingerprint unlock saved in the settings. Instead of allowing fingerprint unlock, it requires entering my password/pin. I use a long and secure password, so it takes time to enter it and make sure it's correct. I already enter this password everytime my phone boots, so this additional request is extremely annoying and unnecessary.
Does anyone know Why this additional request is made? What triggers it? Or How to disable it?
Any help is appreciated
I am also interested
I get this occasionally and I have a short pin. I think it is very much "backing" up fingerprint security since no security is perfect. Good security involves something you have "fingerprint" and something you know "pin" since it would be very unlikely an imposter would have both. I would be very surprised if there is a way to turn the random check of your pin off.
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Unfortunately, this "security check" can make your device LESS secure, because it happens at random times. If you're in the grocery store, at someone's house, or anywhere with security camera's, then entering your Pin/Password can be recorded on video. More businesses and people are installing camera's everyday.
In these situations using Fingerprint (instead of Pin) is More Secure. It's for this reason I want to disable it randomly requiring pin/password
hate this
Yep I hate the one that programed this security feature without an obvious way to turn it off, we don't no one telling us what is good for our security. I want it to unlock everytime I touch the finger print scanner, even at startup, and if anything I want it to lock down if I use a certain finger and then require a password.
Mod edit: Removed unacceptable language.
I actually have a pretty simple PIN just because of this situation otherwise fingerprint is just fine :/
can this be disabled? everyone can see me type in my pin when this happens
Hi XDA, I have a Galaxy s8+.
My pattern lock is acting goofy, won't recognise the correct pattern. Fingerprint works fine so I can get into my phone. But entering security settings to disable pattern requires pattern.
Kind of scared to turn off my device.
I have all lost device software enabled and signed into Google. What can I do?
Edit: OK while I have both Samsung and Google Find My Device enabled, in my android settings apparently I didn't give permission to remote unlock. Turn it on? Requires pattern.
Thank you kindly ilu