Lock Security Not Working

[Swiissjokr]

Is there anyone experiencing that no matter what lock I use, my phone always allows me to just swipe up once to unlock? I tried facial unlock & that works flawlessly, but I also added the secondary pattern and I still swipe up once and my phone just unlocks completely. I also disabled facial recognition with just primary pattern or number lock as the security and the phone still opens right up like no security is on it at all.

Anyone have a solution for this or does this seem like another bug for a future update?

 

[Deleted member 6642642]

Settings>Display>Navigation Bar>"Unlock with home button" - is this enabled or in any way related to what you're experiencing? Just a guess

 

[Swiissjokr]

Settings>Display>Navigation Bar>"Unlock with home button" - is this enabled or in any way related to what you're experiencing? Just a guess

I just took a look and that option is off. the kick screen doesn't skip. I have to swipe up Everytime...let's me right in

 

[BarryH_GEG]

Do you allow Smart Lock on a network or attached device? What you're describing is the phone's behavior when connected to a Smart Lock approved device.

 

[Swiissjokr]

Do you allow Smart Lock on a network or attached device? What you're describing is the phone's behavior when connected to a Smart Lock approved device.

I do, my Huawei watch

 

[truckerdewd]

I do, my Huawei watch

That's what is doing it. I had my Asus Zenwatch 2 listed as a trusted device in Smart Lock and my phone was doing the same thing. I removed all trusted devices and now I have to use my pin, finger print or irises to unlock my phone.

Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

 

[JamesR913]

It is set to not turn on the lock when the screen goes off for 10 minutes by default. You have to go I to lock screen, secure lock settings

Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

 

[Swiissjokr]

That's what is doing it. I had my Asus Zenwatch 2 listed as a trusted device in Smart Lock and my phone was doing the same thing. I removed all trusted devices and now I have to use my pin, finger print or irises to unlock my phone.

I removed it from trusted devices and now I'm back to normal thank you

 

[truckerdewd]

I removed it from trusted devices and now I'm back to normal thank you

Welcome

Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

 

[0Artur0]

So it's this a bug? Trusted devices should unlock only when phone is connected or in vicinity to them.

 

[jonislost]

Also seeing this same behaviour. My home wifi is a trusted device and obviously it unlocks when I'm connected to it, but now for the second time I've been away from home for over 2 hours and it happily unlocks with just swipe. It only asks for biometrics if I reboot the phone. So it seems that there's a bug in trusted sources whereby it believes its still connected to wifi for some time after you disconnect!

 

[Trmalee]

I had to disable my trusted place (home) even though I was 100km away to fix the issue.

 

[imperialdesigns]

Lock Security not Working

It may also be the On-Body Detection is set to ON under the Smart Lock feature

 

[}{yBr!D^]

The way I fixed mine after reading all of these posts was Settings>Lock Screen and Security>Secure Lock Settings>(Enter Pin or whatever security option you have enabled)>Secured Lock Time>, then add the diode to the first selection, "Instantly with the power key or when the screen times out." Then it prompted my security feature everytime the phone locked. When adding a timeout period if you lock with the lock button for some reason it thinks you did it by choice (owner) and figures you will open it without the need to input security feature. I have everything mentioned above off so, I was baffled as to why it didn't prompt my pin option. Now timeout or self lock (by owner) it prompts pin all the time. Hope this helps.

 

[SimsonCorreya]

Note 8

Mine has the same issue. but i dont have any trusted devices. i think its a bug in the software. It only asks for pin or iris scan after a couple of minutes being locked otherwise i can just swipe and it unlocks which is ****.

 

[Jay.O.G]

Don't do hard resets, login to the samsung account, go to find my mobile, then unlock your phone from there, it will delete the password. It will tell you to use a pin for access to samsung and the phone etc. Add the pin into the phone, then unlock the phone when you're on the phone screen. This will wipe off the passcode, this is so your settings don't keep restarting (happened to my note 8). Next part is to clear credentials in the settings and reset settings. None your data, apps will be affected, just the theme and basic security stuff. Now you can finally reset your pattern to however to you want it to be. As good as gold! Hope this helps.

 

[SimsonCorreya]

Thanks a lot. I finally figured out what the issue was. My On-Body-Detection in the Smart Lock settings was On.

 

[Erald22]

Just go to Setting -->Lock Screen and Security --> Smart Lock. Deactivate all the options there.

 

[Singerni]

I have a Moto E4 and I have a secondary pattern up and everytime I swipe up it unlocks it instead of making me put in the pattern