Sometimes it happens that our friends and family members unlock the phone with our fingerprint and facial recognition, only jokingly but the phone gets unlocked. So if you do not want anyone to use your Galaxy smartphone without your consent, then you can enable Samsung Lockdown Mode.
Samsung offers Lockdown Mode for Galaxy device users to make their devices more secure. It is a feature that turns off Smart Lock, biometric unlock, and notifications on the Lock screen.
Whenever you feel that you should let someone lock your phone and they can’t open the phone even with your fingerprint or face recognition, then you use the lockdown mode. Before using it, you need to enable it. Just need to follow a few steps.
First of all, open the Settings of your smartphone, then press on the Lock Screen option and you will see the Secure lock settings option, tap on it. After entering your smartphone’s PIN or password, a new page to appears, you have to turn on the Show Lockdown options and it is done.
Once you enable the feature, you can use it. Press and hold the Power button. Now, you can see the Lockdown mode option, press on it. It immediately locks your screen and turns off both fingerprint sensor and face recognition.
You can also use this feature by swiping down two times, tapping on the power button, and pressing the Lockdown mode. Remember one thing, once you unlock your smartphone with your smartphone’s passcode then the Lockdown mode is enable.
You will have to access this feature again through the Power menu. Once you have enabled this feature through Settings, you only need to use it with the Power button.
