The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature was mysteriously removed from Android 16 Beta 4, but here's how to enable it on ...

Google's upcoming Android 16 update will allow Pixel users to enable screen unlocking through the fingerprint scanner even when their screen is off. When enabled, the Screen-off F ...

The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature in Android 16 lets Pixel phones use their fingerprint scanners even when the screen ...

Still, it's an important launch. The iPhone X's face-scanning camera, hidden in the phone's notch, works well, but it's not as reliable as a fingerprint scanner. And if you can embed a fingerprint ...

Fingerprint sensors, for example, have progressed to being embedded beneath the display; we've listed some of the best smartphones with in-display fingerprint sensors that unlock quickly.

So now that I have two phones with fingerprint scanners on them, I decided I needed to know more about what’s going on in there. Sure, I assumed the sensor was capacitive (but maybe not ...

The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock will be available for all Pixel phones with under-display fingerprint scanners from Pixel 6 onwards, excluding foldables, as reported by Android Authority.

Then, they'd need to get physical access to your phone to even have a chance of unlocking it. Fingerprint scanners aren't the only phone security systems that have been probed and found wanting.

The other thing to note is that if your phone is stolen ... we’ve got a great primer on how fingerprint scanners work, and another on why using fingerprints for security is a bad plan.