Locking your home screen prevents accidentally moving icons around. You can lock and unlock your Home screen layout in Settings. Making it harder to move the apps and widgets on your home screen could ...

All Pixel phones can now use the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature in Android 16 Beta 3. The Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature lets you unlock your Pixel phone even when its screen is off. It ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. The fingerprint reader on your Pixel 9 series phone could soon add a new feature to its speedy unlockness.

As Google prepares Android 16 for launch, users are discovering interesting new features in its various betas. The latest one, discovered by Android Authority, allows you to unlock your Google Pixel ...

Google’s latest Android 16 Beta 3 update doesn’t introduce any flashy new features at first glance. But the company might have finally fixed one of the most annoying quirks of Pixel fingerprint ...

The toggle to enable the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature is missing from Android 16 Beta 4, but it’s still possible to enable it via a hidden command. Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock allows Pixel ...

“Show Viewed Notifications” keeps dismissed alerts visible on the lock screen until you unlock, unless you turn it off. “Show Silent Notifications” covers those low-priority alerts from muted apps or ...

The recent Android 16 Beta 3 (and Beta 3.1) release updates a feature limited to the Pixel 9 and allows all devices from the Pixel 6 and newer to use fingerprint unlock while the screen is off.

Google is adding a big improvement to fingerprint scanning on Pixel phones with the upcoming Android 16 update. The new Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock will let users unlock their devices using the ...

Carrot Weather is out with a new update today for iOS 16 that brings 20+ handy Lock Screen Widgets, 10 new layout sections to customize your setup, a major multicolumn redesign for iPad, and more.