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You can choose among these lo ck options, listed i n approximate
order of strength:
• slide provides no protect ion, but lets you get to the Home
screen quickly, or open C amera and start taking pictures
immediately.
• Face unlock lets you unloc k your phone by l ooking at it. T his is
the least secure lock option.
TIP: Face unlock lets you u nlock your phone by l ooking
at the screen. After you se t it up, look under Set tings >
Personal > Security for two additional settin gs: Improve
face matching and Livenes s check. use these to make
Face unlock more reliabl e and secure.
• Pattern lets you draw a sim ple pattern with your nger to u n-
lock the phone. This is sli ghtly more secu re than Face unloc k.
• PiN requires four or more num bers. Longer PiNs tend to be
more secure.
• Password requires four or m ore letters or nu mbers. This is th e
most secure option, as lo ng as you create a stron g password.
Password tips: For best security, specif y a password that is
• A least 8 characters long .
• Contains a mixture of num bers, letter s, and special sy mbols.
• Doesn’t contain any rec ognizable word s or phrases.