Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to get into your Android phone if you've forgotten your security pattern. Image: prima91/Adobe Stock The Android platform offers many ways to secure your data.

Greasy finger traces can potentially reveal the pattern used to unlock Android devices. Typing a PIN is better, a Googler concludes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Since 2008, Google has offered a pattern unlock feature in its Android operating system. Pattern unlock remains a unique part of the Android experience -- you won't find the feature on any other ...

What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...

Pattern unlock has long been a part of Android, but in recent years it hasn’t been much of a focus thanks to the arrival of biometrics. In Android P, though, Google is giving it a little love… Long ...

Researchers settle PIN versus pattern debate with study that proves a low-tech hack makes cracking an unlock screen simple. An academic study set out to prove whether it’s better to protect your ...

How to reset your Android lock screen password/PIN/pattern Your email has been sent Google has dramatically changed its tune on bypassing the Android lock screen. If ...