Setting up fingerprint or face unlock is a great way to secure your Android phone. But the real lock that stands between your ...

While this might not remove the need for a PIN or fingerprint entirely, it could reduce how often you're asked to verify your ...

In Android 13, when you enter the PIN to unlock your smartphone, the digits you press animate to give you feedback. While this is useful and reduces the chances of entering the wrong PIN, it also ...

Nearly 11% of the 3.4 million four-digit passwords he analyzed were 1234. The second most popular PIN in is 1111 (6% of passwords), followed by 0000 (2%).

Android used to have a process where you could type the wrong PIN or password multiple times and it would then send a recovery email to the associated account. However, Google removed that procedure.

If you use a four-digit PIN number, your personal code may not be as secure as you think. PIN codes are commonly used to unlock iPhone or Android devices, access online banking, get cash out of an ...

Google Prompt is a pretty good 2-factor authentication (2FA) option for the vast majority of users, with Google now adding fingerprint or PIN authentication to the process. Over the past few days ...