• FiveMacs
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    807 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        on my phone lockdown mode is found by pressing side button and power up at the same time, then selection lockdown from the menu

    • Victor
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      7 months ago

      Not on my Pixel 6. 🤷‍♂️ It just does what I told it to do, namely to open the camera.

      Edit: these are some Reddit down votes. I just didn’t know I had this feature, and I apparently have disabled it, but I don’t remember doing so. Oh well.

      • FiveMacs
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        307 months ago

        Cool, you disabled the gesture. Clearly the default SO setting doesn’t apply to you…

        • Victor
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          57 months ago

          I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        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.

        • FiveMacs
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          227 months ago

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

            • Victor
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              7 months ago

              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.

              But obviously not universal if you don’t have it. Which Android version are you on?

          • @[email protected]
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            67 months ago

            I don’t know how it sounds like a weird flex. I was just asking. I don’t remember if it was something you could disable or not from when I had my pixel 5.

          • Victor
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            27 months ago

            I didn’t even know it existed. I had to search to find the setting, but I see it exists on my phone and it’s disabled. I don’t recall disabling it though.

            It’s not a flex… 🙄 I was just confused about how it seemed so established that this was an “Android” feature, so should be activated on my phone too, but it isn’t. And now that I see I have the functionality disabled but people say it’s the default, I’m even more confused because I don’t remember even seeing this setting. 🤷‍♂️

        • Victor
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          27 months ago

          I did, yeah. Gotta test before commenting, of course. I see I have the setting disabled for some reason. Don’t recall disabling it though.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 months ago

      There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they’re not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.