Method 3: Unlock your Galaxy S9+ using Samsung Find My Mobile Find My Mobile is Samsung’s own answer to Google’s Android Device Manager. Like ADM, Find My Mobile also requires that you set it ...

After Apple acquired the patent for the Slide to Unlock feature for all iPhone phones, Google has also been officially awarded last week the patent for the Android pattern unlock feature.

I've been using pattern unlock for the better part of 15 years Truth be told, the main reason why I enable pattern unlock as opposed to a PIN on my Google Pixel 9 Pro , comes down to nostalgia.

Android unlock patterns might be fun to use, but they're not that secure. A recent study from the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County revealed that it's incredibly ...

Back in the early days of Android, people ooh-ed and aah-ed over every little thing, even the seemingly-innocuous pattern unlock feature. It appears that Google has bigger plans for that ...

While Google had touted the security of Android’s pattern unlock mechanism for securing data and information on an Android smartphone–law enforcement officials were unable to crack their way ...

The search company credits James B. Miller et all with the pattern unlock invention. To retrieve additional information, type in a patent number of 20110283241 into the USPTO search engine here .