Android 16 now lets all Pixel phones use fingerprint unlock even when the screen is off
Android 16 now lets all Pixel phones use fingerprint unlock even when the screen is off
Mine does that now, and I'm on 13?
Oh yeah, that's right.
I'm on Android 10 and it does that. And the phone originally shipped with Android 9, and it did that too even before the upgrade.
Ain't that cute, they act like they did a thing...
What?
I have a T-Mobile Revvlry+ phone that's like 7 years old and it does that. Matter of fact, the power button is starting to fail now, so that's exactly how I wake my phone up, the fingerprint sensor.
Why don't they just pat themselves on the back and act like they invented the wheel?
The wording is a bit weird, but I'll try to explain what's actually happening here;
This is referring to the pixel's under screen fingerprint reader. Since it's an optical reader, it needs light to see what it's reading so it blasts a white circle around the reader. Currently if the screen is off (we'll get back to this in a sec) then it can't turn this circle on to read the finger. Basically there's an "off" and a "black" with oleds, they'll look identical, but If the screen is "off" you won't be able to light up a section. This can occur when the always-on-display is active, but not if it's disabled. From what I gather this leaves the display in an "black" state so it can still light up the reader, even if AOD is disabled
Also totally accidentally sent this when trying to check the MD ob "off", hopefully you haven't checked this message yet lol
