Or at the very least; turn your phone entirely off (shutdown) whenever you expect or encounter police contact.

Biometrics only work when the device is already running. Mobile devices are in their most locked down/secure state when 'at rest', ie shutdown.

In android; there is also a 'lockdown' mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn't fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.

hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it. In other words, a judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

This isn't bypassing biometrics. This is using biometrics as intended. Bypassing implies this was an unexpected side effect when every security researcher ever has warned that biometrics is intrinsically vulnerable and a terrible password substitute for this exact reason.

Use GrapheneOS so you can "unlock" your phone and enter the wipe code instead.

Another thing for an overhauled Constitution. One's body and devices should be considered to be papers and effects.

On iPhone say "Hey Siri, who's phone is this?" to disable biometric unlock temporarily.

On Android press the power and volume up buttons to open the power off screen, then press "lock down".

that's precisely why i never stopped using a password to access my phone.

Jesus fucking christ.

I don't use my phone for anything other than directions, phone calls, and texting my wife. Partially because I'm not going to carry around something with tons of shit that can be used against me.

This is fucking insane.

The only safe phone is a phone with a strong password thats in a powered down state. Otherwise there are tools to gain full access.

I use biometrics to access some of the apps on my phone. But my home screen requires a password to unlock.

What if you take your dick and use that on the fingerprint scanner, do you think the cops would make you whip it out

Or better yet use GrapheneOS 2FA biometric + PIN + duress PIN + auto reboot:

• If someone spies on you unlocking your phone, they don't get your encryption password
• If they figure out your PIN, they can't unlock your phone without you physically being there, and your phone may reboot to the password unlock before they get it to you
• If they compel you to use biometrics, they can't legally compel you to give them your PIN
• If they decide to start trying out common PINs and you set your duress PIN to one of them, then it wipes your phone

How is current USA administration performing these clear gestapo level violations of amendments and everyone's just like "okay". ?!

For my apps, I use biometric unlocks. To get in passed the lock screen to get onto my phone's home screen, I have to enter a pattern. I figure that if they're already passed the pattern, more pattern won't stop any unauthorized user. So, it really isn't worth the inconvenience to enter the pattern for all my apps (like banking, cc, investments, etc.) over and over. But, if they can't figure out my pattern after so many tries, my phone auto-erases.

I only use a 10-digit pin number I'm guaranteed to never forget. I type it in every time. But, I don't spend much time on my phone, sometimes I even forget it when I leave the house.