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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As I said in my first comment, I’m more familiar with iOS, where 6 digit passcodes are the default.

That said, do you genuinely think the average person would use a random 10+ alphanumeric character passcode to unlock their phone after taking the advice of this article and disabling biometric auth?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes the contemporary phones literally bug and warn you if you don't. Password is much easier to remember than 6 digits too imo.