welcome to State of Tech. We're gonna take a look at how to change your screen lock
type on your Galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus so what we're going to do is swipe down
from the top and then go into our settings from here we're actually going
to go down to the lock screen security and then we can see at the top of the
screen screen lock type currently I have it set to swipe and if we tap in there
you'll see my different options I can add a pattern a pin and a password and
then there's also biometrics down at the bottom such as intelligent scan that
uses the iris and face recognition together and then there's also
fingerprints now choosing one of the biometric options will automatically
have you choose a pattern pin or password but you can also choose to use
the pattern pin or password without using any of the biometrics although I
do highly recommend using one of the biometric features since that does give
you a lot more security on your device the typical one that I like to choose is
the fingerprint so if you tap that on you see the fingerprint is going to ask
you to set up a secure lock screen and add in at least one fingerprint so if we
continue I'll either choose that pattern pin or password a pattern allows you to
draw a pattern on the screen and you can see I just do this right here by drawing
the pattern and then I cap continue the thing that happens when I go back in
here we'll choose fingerprint and then actually choose to use a pin you see I
can use at least four digits so I need to at least choose four digits and then
I can go ahead and enter as many digits as I would like to and then might
confirm my PIN by tapping ok and then the last one will go back in there and
choose fingerprint again and then with a password and this will allow us to add
in an alphanumeric password such as 1 we you might typically use on our computers
so you can choose any number of characters symbols or numbers and choose
that in here so what I'm going to do is actually go ahead and go with a screen
lock type of fingerprint and then I'm going to choose a pattern here so let's
just choose a pattern I'll draw my pattern continue and then confirm it you
will have to confirm it no matter what you choose whether you choose a pin any
pattern or a password you'll have to confirm that to continue so I'm gonna
confirm that you see it's going to ask me to register my fingerprint by swiping
down on it typically in the past you've kind of had
to tap and hold and let it read but with this one what we're doing is going on
the back of the phone and then swiping down with our fingerprint and you see as
I did that and I've registered a hundred percent I can either add another
fingerprint by tapping ad in the bottom left hand corner or by tapping done now
I can go ahead and try it so let's touch the finger press enter to unlock your
phone and it looks like my fingerprint is recognized by tapping on it so now
you can see it's prompted me to choose how my notifications appear on the lock
screen so I can choose to hide the content you see getting a preview there
at the top of the screen I can show notification icons only and then I can
also adjust the transparency here on the lock screen for my notifications and you
see I can make it totally opaque or make it actually solid so choose whichever
you feel is best for you I'm gonna go ahead and go with somewhere down here
where it's high transparency and my text color has automatically been reversed
based upon the background you see I can choose that for auto text color reverse
or I can leave it alone but I'm gonna go and choose it too a little reverse it's
now tap done you know you see my screen lock type has been set to a pattern and
a fingerprint and to get into that menu I will need to confirm my pattern so I
actually did that wrong I'm gonna go to here for my pattern and now I can get in
there and make any sort of adjustments that I would like to so there's another
added security feature when using a secure lock screen you want to come into
secure lock screen settings confirm getting into here by entering in your
pattern pin or password and then I like to change my secure lock time by default
it's set to ten minutes what I like to change it to you is instantly on the
power key or screen times out what this means is that when you lock your phone
whether by the screen timing out or pressing the lock button you will have
to enter in your password passcode pin fingerprint iris scanner face unlock
whatever you've said it to you you will have to enter it in each time your phone
is locked by default with ten minutes what that means is my phone could be
locked I could put it in my pocket I could you know you could throw it in
your purse set it on your desk and the phone won't securely lock itself for ten
minutes so that means that within that ten minutes of locking my device if I
were to happen to get up or move anywhere and someone were to grab it
they would still be able to get into my phone without having to enter in any
sort of security code password face recognition iris
or fingerprint or whatever there would be no need for that so I always change
it to it instantly because that means once I lock my phone no matter where it
ends up whether it's my pocket you put in your purse set up in a desk or
whatever the phone is automatically locked in trying to get back into it
will require either your passcode or I mean one of those biometric settings
that you've set there's also a couple different options such as making your
pattern visible factory reset after ever failed attempts even lock network and
security but I always always always recommend adjusting that secured lock
time so that way your phone is automatically locked and secured
whenever your device is locked so that is how you change your screen lock type
and this one we did add in a fingerprint but we're actually going to dedicate a
video to adding in fingerprints and even adding in multiple fingerprints as well
as going through various multiple biometric readers so if you like this
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