Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."
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I’d like a way to require a pattern outside of predefined locations or WiFi networks. Anyone know of a way?

Lockdown is great but if you fail to put it on then it’s open access for unscrupulous cops.

For almost any phone: just turn it off. Every phone I’ve used requires a passcode after a power cycle

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That’s not really related to what I asked though…

Sorry, I misread your comment, I thought you were asking for a method other than one using lockdown mode. I doubt there’s a method using location if it isn’t provided by the manufacturer, because an app trying to do that would need permissions to lock the phone.

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Smartlock? You can set trusted locations and devices, that keep your phone unlocked. Otherwise your regular pin/password kicks in

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You could try one of those automation apps. I remember seeing some triggers for entering and leaving a location, and the advanced ones should be able to use wifi connections/disconnections

Whether it can change security settings though I’m not as sure about.

They can… or could, on rooted phones. Apps like Tasker have a root mode module that can do pretty much anything. Haven’t used it for a while, though.

Running tasker on a unrooted Fairphone 5 There is a function “System Lock” which locks the phone so you have to enter the PIN. I created a task and a widget on the home screen that triggers the task

I did give tasker some extra rights via adb, which is a quite straight forward process. I think the dev even has a guide for it…

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