• @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    73 months ago

    “on Android” is a mostly useless statement. There are many flavours of it and they do not all behave the same. My phone does not have this.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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      33 months ago

      Your biometrics work the first time you log in after a restart? That seems insecure to me.

    • Beej Jorgensen
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      23 months ago

      I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

      • @Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        I have a motorola running LineageOS and it’s available on mine. Seems like a relatively standard option, though it may need to be enabled under Settings -> System -> Buttons (or whatever it looks like on your flavor of android).

        • @bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works
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          13 months ago

          Just a note - most LineageOS installs aren’t secure unless you re-lock the bootloader, as data can be extracted with some fairly standard mobile phone forensics kits. Unfortunately, not many devices support bootloader re-lock. The Google Pixel series is a notable exception.

          Ideally, you would want a security hardened Android OS like GrapheneOS. Graphene only runs on Pixels as the development team specifically disallows it running on hardware with an unlocked bootloader for security reasons.

    • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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      13 months ago

      IIRC, you have to enable it on some versions of Android. I don’t see the option to disable it on my Android 15 phone but I do recall having to enable it before on older versions. A quick Google search for your version should help.

      • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Negative, it is not available on my OS.

        Lmao who downvoted me cause my phone OS doesn’t have a feature? Wild.