"To unlock the phone" means to remove the restrictions or password protection that prevent you from accessing its features and functions.
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Still, I figured out that a quick tap is all I need to wake the display without
unlocking the phone in its entirety.
Neither of these unlock mechanisms on your wrist is particularly convenient, but the pattern lock allows you to
unlock your phone without using a keyboard on a 1.3 - inch display.
Since the fingerprint reader is on the back, you can wake and
unlock your phone just by putting your finger on the reader.
This was done to prevent iris scans from
unlocking the phone when the user wakes it to view notifications on the lock screen.
Note that if you have
n't unlocked your phone in more than four hours, you'll have to use a PIN, password, or pattern.
When light is illuminating your face, you can
quickly unlock the phone with its facial recognition or the iris scanner (if you do not wear glasses).
It enables users to
unlock the phone at least 80 % faster than devices that use a slower sweeping recognition option.
It's not hard to pick the
best unlocked phone when the best smartphone on the market is available unlocked.
Yes, it increases the potential risk that someone else will
unlock your phone while you're sleeping or looking somewhere else.
The home button has been retained and so has been the embedded fingerprint sensor,
which unlocks the phone pretty quickly.
As always, the update is likely to hit
unlocked phones first — carrier devices usually come with additional apps and software features that require more time to test and bring up to date.
It can
make unlocking your phone a much more deliberate gesture than before, however it's considerably more accurate and makes the security aspect of your phone almost invisible to you.
There is a very rare situation where you are unable to
unlock your phone after entering your PIN and it keeps letting you type even though you entered your pin correctly.
I forgot to
unlock my phone before I went, so I just use the free bus and occasional pub wifi to connect back home and keep it on airplane mode.
Coming to the fingerprint scanner on the phone, this is fast and would
unlock the phone almost instantly each time I tried.
You have many choices, but the good news is that if you're bring your
own unlocked phone over, it should work in most cases.
I don't think they'd work any different than buying any
other unlocked phone, but I could be wrong about that.
Because the fingerprint sensor is on the back,
unlocking the phone requires removing the phone completely, especially when the face recognition system fails to work properly.
You could always opt for a phone on contract, but we like
unlocked phones because they offer more flexibility to choose your carrier.
Moreover, holding the sleeping phone in the landscape orientation and pressing one of the volume buttons will
immediately unlock the phone and launch the camera application.