Locking your home screen prevents accidentally moving icons around. You can lock and unlock your Home screen layout in Settings. Making it harder to move the apps and widgets on your home screen could ...

Change how you unlock it: Search Settings for Screen lock and then pick a different unlock method. Some Androids include a fingerprint reader that lets you unlock the device by scanning your ...

You can get so accustomed to swiping to unlock your iPhone and iPad, that by comparison, clicking to awaken your dozing MacBook seems so… unceremonious. Now ...

As Google prepares Android 16 for launch, users are discovering interesting new features in its various betas. The latest one, discovered by Android Authority, allows you to unlock your Google Pixel ...

All Pixel phones can now use the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature in Android 16 Beta 3. The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature lets you unlock your Pixel phone even when its screen is off. It ...

There are times that we may forget our PIN or Password to unlock our phones. In this troubleshooting episode, we help one user who’s trying to unlock his Galaxy Note9. He did not forget his passcode ...

Ever since the iPhone came out in 2007, users have always had to slide a finger along the bottom of the screen to unlock it. With iOS 7, Apple’s still has the ‘slide to unlock’ message at the bottom ...

Some of us may forget important things that may not have of great consequence. However, if you forget how to unlock your phone nowadays, we’re pretty sure that it’s going to cause you headaches, ...

Feel like an idiot every time you try to unlock your iPhone with iOS 10? You're not alone. WSJ's Joanna Stern has a fix. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. It’s been burned into our ...

Google Pixel phones boast a host of exclusive features not available on most other Android brands. However, they also have some drawbacks or limitations not found on other companies’ devices. One of ...

The toggle to enable the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature is missing from Android 16 Beta 4, but it’s still possible to enable it via a hidden command. Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock allows Pixel ...

Locking the screen keeps you from accidentally moving the icons around, but if you want to change your layout, you'll need to unlock it There's nothing more frustrating than when you're swiping across ...