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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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IANAL but this seems to be pretty common all across the world. The usual recommendation is to put your phone in "lockdown" mode if there's any suspicion you may get arrested. This prevents the phone from being unlocked with biometrics and require pin.
You can do this either by restarting or turning off your phone, or a button combination (power + volume up on my android) and selecting lockdown.
Holding power + volume down in an iphone until the power off menu comes up disables faceid until you log in with your pin as well
Also for iPhone: If you press just the side button/lock button five times in quick succession, it will also go into lockdown mode and can only be unlocked with a pin. A little easier to covertly do as it’s just a button mash before you get nabbed.