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We’ll show you how to Disable Fingerprint Scanner on Phone and Laptop in this guide. How do you keep your phone safe? Like everyone else, probably by using a password. But entering it every time isn’t very handy, so we usually use biometrics to open it. Most devices use a fingerprint, but sometimes a face or an eye, for example, can be used instead.
People think this is the safest way to log in because a password can be forgotten, but a fingerprint or eye-print can’t. Also, it is not always as safe as most people think, especially when there is an emergency. Android and iPhone is one of the safest operating systems in the world, and it has several ways to keep your device safe.
How to Disable Fingerprint Scanner on Android
- Android includes a “lockdown mode” that requires your swipe pattern or passcode.
- Open Settings
- Then Security & location
- Tab on Lock screen preferences.
- Toggle on Show lockdown option. Then any time you want to activate lockdown, hold down your power button and tap Enter lockdown.
How to Disable Fingerprint Scanner on iPhone
Use Hey Siri
If you have Listen for “Hey Siri” turned on, saying “Hey Siri, whose phone is this?” will turn off Touch/Face ID on a locked phone. Like pressing a button, this only works until you’ve used it to unlock your phone once.
Strangely, this doesn’t work when you hold down the Home button to activate Siri. (Siri translates your question as “Whose phone is this?”, which is a terrible grammar mistake that will hurt Apple’s stock price for sure.) When we tried it, the voice order didn’t always work unless we entered our own contact information. This part seems to be too smart for its own good.
Use Settings App
On iOS, you can turn off iPhone Unlock by going to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode (or Face ID & Passcode). If you lock your phone again, you will need your PIN to get back in. This change will stay until you go back to Settings and turn Touch/Face ID back on.
How to Disable Fingerprint Scanner on Laptop
- Click the Start button, then “Control Panel.” Select “Device Manager” from the list of options in the Control Panel window.
- Click “Biometric Devices” under “Device Manager.” Right-click “Validity fingerprint sensor” and choose “Disable” from the menu.
- Click “OK” to complete the process. Restart the computer and log in as normal to ensure the changes have been made.
FAQs
How to use Find My Device to get around the fingerprint lock on an Android phone. Let’s say you used the Settings menu on your Android device to turn on the Find My Device feature before it got locked, and you remembered the Google account credentials related to your device. In that case, you can use Find My Device to get around the fingerprint lock.
check app locker settings! settings > tools > app locker! It depends on the app you use. If you go into the settings for the Calendar app, you should be able to change any security settings there. There are protection settings like these in a lot of apps, but they are different for each app.