MoonlightFoxMar 20, 2025

How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics?

https://lemmy.world/post/27073980

How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? - Lemmy.World

I really like the convenience of using fingerprint unlock for lockscreen and password manager. I do however don’t like the thought of being forced to unlock both physically. I use Android with GrapheneOS. I have set up lockdown, but it takes some time to hold the power button and then click lockdown. Any creative solutions?

Show threadCubitOomMar 20, 2025

As others have said, the most secure option is to not use biometrics.

However an app like private lock might be a decent compromise

GitHub - wesaphzt/privatelock

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Show threadswelter_sparkMar 20, 2025
I use Paranoid’s Pal, a similar app. It’s great. In addition to locking in response to motion, I have it set to automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off.
Show threadsmegMar 20, 2025

automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off

Isn’t the default behaviour of phones to lock as soon as the screen turns off?

Show threadlightnsfw
mine doesn’t do it if it goes off by “idling”. Only if i hit the button to turn it off.
Mar 20, 2025 at 5:28pmWeb