There are times when your iPhone’s facial recognition utterly fails and you have no free fingers to tap in a PIN. For example, you’re at an amusement park, the sun is baking your brain, your ...

A friend recently dropped his phone and ended up with a cracked display. That isn’t always a death knell for a smartphone, but in this case it meant that he couldn’t unlock the phone because the ...

If you use a four-digit PIN number, your personal code may not be as secure as you think. PIN codes are commonly used to unlock iPhone or Android devices, access online banking, get cash out of an ATM ...

Guess how long it would take a computer to brute-force an 8-number password. The answer: instantly. That's according to Hive Systems' Password Table, which shows how shockingly quick passwords of ...

Some of us may forget important things that may not have of great consequence. However, if you forget how to unlock your phone nowadays, we’re pretty sure that it’s going to cause you headaches, ...

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PIN unlock is a fairly secure method of locking down your phone, and in Android 14’s latest beta release, Google is making it a bit easier for Pixel users as they’ll no longer need to confirm unlock ...