• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Lockdown doesn't require password unless your device settings require password – it normally just kicks it back to requiring pin. Which is still quite secure. I don't know what you mean saying it is disabled by default – it is available by default if you long press the power button and click Lockdown.

    Even better is to reboot the device. Then it will be in lockdown mode – pin required – and also encrypted awaiting the pin. A modern device fresh from a restart should be quite hard indeed to crack without some alternate access to the person's Google account.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      In my experience, the 'show lockdown option' is off by default. You have to enable it in settings before you can use it.

      Requiring a pin on startup used to be the same, but it's not even an option anymore, it's just on.

      I was also refering to pin/pattern lock as your password for android, perhaps not the best wording.