Samsung’s One UI already gives Galaxy owners more control over their phones than most Android skins, but a few lesser-known tools can quietly transform how quickly you get from a locked screen to what ...

Locking your home screen prevents accidentally moving icons around. You can lock and unlock your Home screen layout in Settings. Making it harder to move the apps and widgets on your home screen could ...

All you have to do is disable the Skip lock screen feature in the Face Unlock settings. This feature generally allows you to ...

One of the standout updates in OneUI 8.0 is the introduction of customizable fingerprint animations. Accessible through the Lockar module, this feature offers four distinct animation styles, allowing ...

Apple adds a new slider to reduce transparency on the lock screen clock. The update also lets you set the screen to flash for ...

Using widgets on your Android phone's home screen is a great way to view important information at a glance without opening apps. But did you know you can also add most of these widgets on your Android ...

1. Open Settings on your iPhone. 2. Scroll down and tap Display & Brightness. 3. Tap on Auto-Lock. 4. Choose your preferred time period after which the iPhone screen should lock automatically. Options ...

Now that iOS 17 is out in the wild, consumers are getting hands-on time with many just-released iPhone features. One of the neater inclusions is the brand-new StandBy mode. This toolset transforms ...

These days, your Android device is teeming with personal information, sensitive or not. It’s never a bad idea to set a screen lock for your Pixel or other Android device. Here’s how you can do it and ...

Starting with iOS 16, your iPhone's lock screen is so much more than just a long list of alerts and a clock stacked atop your wallpaper. You can now customize the first screen you see every time you ...

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