Do you use a password/PIN/other secret code to gain access to your phone? That’s the whole question. It’s coming from this thread in which at least one person seems rather shocked that not everybody locks their phone.
The only reason I would lock my phone now is so my toddler, who loves phones, doesn’t eff everything up but mostly I just keep the phone away from him and that takes care of that. He still gets to it sometimes though. Last time he did, he upgraded it from ICS to Jellybean, so… okay. I was under the impression Jellybean wouldn’t be released to the Bionic so that was a win.
No. I only really have it out at home and at the office (small office, no fear of theft). I do have a toddler but I’m more worried about him throwing it across the kitchen floor than him randomly dialing Belize or buying the Britney Spears Master Collection off Google Music. So I just keep it out of his reach.
Phones aren’t simply phones these days; many of them are handheld computers with all kinds of sensitive information (such as banking apps) loaded onto them. I lock my smartphone, and have an app installed that will allow me to remote wipe it if I ever lose it.
I don’t - nothing sensitive on there, at least not sensitive enough that it would justify the inconvenience of having to type in the PIN every time I use it. It always lives in my pants pocket, and if someone steals my phone, I have other problems.
My banking app (and home security app) require passwords which are not available on my phone. Changing those passwords via e-mail requires knowing my social security number which also isn’t stored on my phone or in my emails.
I’m sure there’s some scenario where a stolen phone would be a pain in the ass above and beyond replacing the phone but I’m not sure it outweighs the accumulated hassle of years of unlocking my unstolen phone.
I have the same arrangement at work. I eventually decided that work email could wait until I got to a computer – it was just too much of a pain to have to type a password (simple PINS aren’t allowed) every time I turned my phone on.
My screen will lock itself after a set time period (I think I have it set to one minute) and that prevents pocket dialing/app activation pretty well. A simple swipe and I’m in my phone, no password required.
I’ve had dumb flip phones that had the option of using 4 digit PINs to secure access to the phone.
I do, and I’ve been doing it for a few years now so I don’t even think about it anymore. It takes me about .5 seconds to unlock it. Hardly a burden, considering everything it’s protecting. My “password” is a ‘connect the dots’ code, which seems easier to me to do quickly than entering numbers or letters.
No. I pick up and put down my phone too much for this to be practical. I did lock it with a PIN when I first got it, which lasted all of 30 minutes. I also have the option to do a connect-the-dots fingerslide, but nah. I live on the edge!
I never lock my phone. It’s always by my side. I’m always using it for websurfing and playing music. I don’t keep sensitive information on it, and it’s not worth the hassle of entering a PIN every time I use it.
I don’t have a smart phone. My phone is dumb. In fact, my phone is so stupid it wouldn’t understand the rules of the Phone Special Olympics. If someone got ahold of it, the worst they could do with it is order me a pizza. And they’d have to put it on their own credit card. So, no. I don’t lock it.
This might also be the reason why this:
sounds to me like an alien attempting an English sentence. I understand what most of those words mean - or at least are supposed to mean - but put together this way it’s just nonsensical.