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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for defending me. ❤️ They were correct though. Apparently I had the setting disabled, but I don't remember doing so. Must have been years ago on another phone? And then carried over when settings migrated? I don't know when this feature was introduced. But yeah. It's a thing.

But obviously not universal if you don't have it. Which Android version are you on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which Android version are you on?

10 qkq1.190910.002

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, that's probably why, eh? Android 10 is quite old, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

might be. might also be miui thing, i don't know.

the fact remains that (android does x) does not equal to (some subset of android does x)

edit: seems the function was added in adroid 12 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/uk-police-blame-android-for-record-number-of-false-emergency-calls/

which means that as of right now it is available to 60% of android users - https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobile/worldwide/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah 60% is far from every device lol. But it's still a good warning I guess. 😅