• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

    You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

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      6 months ago

      ⚠️ WARNING: On android, mashing the power button 5 times calls emergency services…

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        6 months ago

        Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️ It just does what I told it to do, namely to open the camera.

        Edit: these are some Reddit down votes. I just didn’t know I had this feature, and I apparently have disabled it, but I don’t remember doing so. Oh well.