How to remove the lock screen on Android

Refuse lock

By default, the Android-devices installed unlock swipe across the screen. You press the unlock button on the side face, swipe your finger across the display, and turns on the Home screen. You can reduce the number of steps in half, getting rid of the swipe.

Open Android Settings. Go to "Lock Screen and safety." Click on the item "Lock Screen" and select "No".

If the phone was set up another way to unlock, you'll have to shoot him to enter the pattern, PIN or password, depending on the method of protection.

Refusing to lock the screen, you make the contents of the phone available to all.

A list of contacts, correspondence, photos, pages in social networks - any person to access them if you leave the device unattended.

There is another disadvantage: increases the likelihood of accidental call, Send a message or start an application. When switching on the system, just press the unlock button, then pocket it will be pressed constantly. It is therefore reasonable not to give up the lock screen, and choose a more convenient way of removing it.

Select another way to unlock

In the setting of Android, you'll find several ways to unlock.

• Swipe across the screen. It does not protect against unauthorized access, but it saves you from accidental clicks in your pocket.
• Pattern. May comprise from four to nine dots. In sum, it contains 389,112 combinations, of which only one access opening.
• Pin. It consists of four digits, which gives a total of 10,000 combinations.
• Password. The most reliable way to lock. The password can be from four to 17 characters, and the number of passes per billion combinations.

Fingerprint scanning and facial recognition are additional methods. You protect the system's pattern, PIN or password, and when you unlock choose which option to use. Enter key or, for example, apply a finger.

If you forget the password, PIN or pattern, the phone still can unlock. This will require a trusted device or access your Google Account. In an extreme case, will have to return to the factory settings, resulting in data loss.

Use automatic unlocking

If the Android Settings is a function of Smart Lock, configure automatic unlocking under certain conditions. The method works only when you set an unlock pattern, PIN or password.

Open the settings, go to "Lock Screen and safety." Click on an item Smart Lock, enter your pattern, PIN or password, and select the unlock condition.

• Physical contact. The device is unlocked when you take it in hand. Fingerprint identification or face not, there is access to the system, anyone can.
• Safe places. You indicate on the map the places where the phone always remains unlocked. Get access to the system can also be anyone who would be next.
• Secure device. You set up a trusted device via Bluetooth. When you connect to your phone or the tablet It will be unlocked.
• Voice Match. Unlocking using the phrase «Ok Google».

On some devices, is also available face recognition. However, Google developers have warned that it provides a less reliable protection than a pattern, PIN or password, because the system can unblock the person, like you.

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