You can unlock your Android phone even if you've forgotten the passcode, but you'll usually need to factory reset the phone.

Even if you use your Android phone on a pretty regular basis over the course of a day, special circumstances might cause your brain to short-circuit and suddenly forget how to unlock your device. Of ...

Locking your Android smartphone with a password, PIN or unlock pattern is your first defense against those who would use it for malicious purposes like stealing your info or sending joke texts to your ...

Come on, admit it. We’ve all done it. Maybe you’ve just received a shiny new Android device that you’re eager to use. Perhaps you’ve decided to give the world of custom ROMs a try or are jumping from ...

While Google had touted the security of Android’s pattern unlock mechanism for securing data and information on an Android smartphone–law enforcement officials were unable to crack their way into the ...

Samsung phones are equipped with a bundle of security features to protect users’ data and privacy. If you own a Samsung device, then you can better understand this. However, if you ever forget your ...

In the age of mobile computing, security is more important than ever. Protecting your data from those who could use it to cause you harm is a never-ending battle. While an alphanumeric password is ...

Greasy finger traces can potentially reveal the pattern used to unlock Android devices. Typing a PIN is better, a Googler concludes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...

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