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Little tip, put the duress pin as your birth date. Because that's the first thing that a law enforcement officer might try. Then the phone deletes itself and they can't claim that you did it because they were the ones to enter it, unprompted.
How do i configure a duress pin on android? Is it a native feature or do i need an app? Using lineage os btw
Duress PIN is a native feature of GrapheneOS. It is one of many privacy friendly features in GrapheneOS.
When I think about how Google could relatively inexpensively back-port those features into Android, and how they have not done so... it makes me feel uncomfortable with how long I trusted Google with most of my digital identity.
Edit: I'm not aware of another good way to set a duress pin. When I search for "Android duress pin" all I find, at the moment, are links to GrapheneOS.
Yeah, it wouldnt be hard for then to add these security features. I dont know whats stopping them.
I found some apps that add this duress pin in droid-ify and f-droid. But i havent tested any yet. One is called Duress, an other is AlternativeUnlockXposed. Both seem to aim at more or less the same. But AlternativeUnlockXposed looks more interesting as it makes the duress pin unlock the screen and it silently runs a preconfigured command to erase something.
You can set the duress pin by going to Settings/Security and privacy/Device unlock/Duress password.Got GrapheneOS installed. I don't know about the rest though.
I just checked here. Its not present in mine (lineage os 23).
Wow I didn't think my passcode was that transparent. But it's in European formatting so I guess I have to trust that cops won't know what's smaller, a day or a month.