Google is demonstrating the great advantage of having a Pixel mobile: the large amount of updates and the extensive support they receive. All the company’s models, from Pixel 6, are receiving news every month with the Pixel Drop, and many are so remarkable that any other manufacturer would make them exclusive to the new model.
We have a good example in the last novelty that has been discovered in the third beta version of Android 16, whose launch is expected for this next summer, long before usual. Despite this accelerated development, Google prepares several important novelties in the interface and operation, and some will be adapted only for pixel mobiles.
The great novelty is the ability to Unlock the mobile with the dull screen. All Pixel models, also from Pixel 6, have a fingerprint reader under the screen; However, this sensor only works when the screen is on. If we touch the screen when it is off in the reader’s area, nothing will happen; First we have to turn on the screen by pressing the ignition button, and then we can touch the sensor.
The other option is to activate the always on the screen, and in that case we can use the reader at any time; however, Many users prefer to save battery Instead of having the screen always on, and in that case, this is not a viable solution.
With Android 16, we can finally unlock the mobile with the screen off. It is a new option in the adjustments, in the security and privacy section, which allows Activate the fingerprint reader with the dull screen; Therefore, it was not a technical limitation, at least not ‘hardware’, but of ‘software’.
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As they have discovered in Android AuthorityOnce this option is activated, it is only necessary to put the finger in the fingerprint reader area, and automatically the screen will turn on and the system will be unlocked, taking us to the home screen or the app that we had open.
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An interesting detail is that, although the process is direct for the user, several things actually happen when a finger puts on the reader; First, the screen turns on with the always on the screen mode, and then the system is unlocked.
That tells us that Google can be using a ‘trick’ so that it seems that the mobile is unlocked only with touching the screen; Actually, it first detects the touch to start the screen mode always on, and then read the fingerprint and approve it if it is correct.
