Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

⚠️ WARNING: On android, mashing the power button 5 times calls emergency services…

Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️

Have to tried? On my Samsung pressing twice does the camera (as I’ve set it to) but doing 5 times tries to call emergency services.

They disabled it . I don’t understand why they even commented. It reads like some weird flex

Right, correcting your incorrect information is “weird flex”. What are you, five?

On my Mi Max 3 it does not work as well. In “configure buttons” section of menu there is no call emergency number action, neither is there press any button five times trigger available. So clearly the function your phone has is not universal. What a wild world do we live in!

Thank you for defending me. ❤️ They were correct though. Apparently I had the setting disabled, but I don’t remember doing so. Must have been years ago on another phone? And then carried over when settings migrated? I don’t know when this feature was introduced. But yeah. It’s a thing.

Which Android version are you on?

10 qkq1.190910.002

Ah, that’s probably why, eh? Android 10 is quite old, right?