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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you reboot your phone, the first unlock can't use biometrics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You can also set it up so biometrics can be used by apps but not to unlock the phone. That way it's easy to get to your apps and such but trivially more difficult to unlock.