• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

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

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      8 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.

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      8 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.

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        8 months ago

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

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          8 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.

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        8 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.

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          8 months ago

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

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            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!

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            8 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.

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            8 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. 🤷‍♂️

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          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.