Little by little we are discovering more features of Android 14 thanks to the launch of the various betas of the system. This week Android 14 Developer Preview 2 arrived and we discovered some new features of the version.
There are some (like the ability to create wallpapers with emojis) that are aesthetically pleasing, others that shouldn’t confuse the user (like Google’s policy on apps that promise to improve phone performance) and we also learn about the features. The last is the possibility of unlock android 14 with pin code without having to press “next”.
Faster, but less secure access as Google invites us to use the fingerprint
The more precautions we take with our phone, the better. We have a ton of personal and financial information on these devices, and yes, sometimes unlocking your phone with a six-digit PIN or password is a bummer, but better to lose another second than to get robbed .
Why do we say this? Because we got used to the ease and comfortable it is to unlock our mobile with a four-digit PIN code which, moreover, is automatically confirmed in many layers of personalization in Android. By the way, on iOS the dashboard can also be accessed with an auto-confirming four-digit PIN.
A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a report in which several experts commented that this four-digit PIN code that automatically accesses the content of our mobile was a gold mine for thieves. Well, now, and as we can read on XDA Developers, Google is going to borrow a feature that has been in different layers of Android customization for years.
We refer specifically to the ability to unlock the phone automatically when entering a PIN codewithout the need to press the “next” icon.
“PIN code confirmation by pressing “enter” is more secure than automatic confirmation.” It looks like Google doesn’t really like the feature they just added.
It’s something we’ve seen in layers such as One UI on the Samsung Galaxy S23, Nothing OS on the Nothing Phone (1), MIUI on the Xiaomi 13 or OxygenOS on the OnePlus 11, to name a few. some. Other companies such as Vivo, Nokia or Asus ask you for confirmation after entering the PIN code.
Misaal Rahman, author of the XDA article, comments that Google may allow this automatic confirmation, but only with six-digit PIN codes. However, they still recommend the user to choose a less comfortable, but more secure option, such as entering the six-digit code and pressing “Enter” to unlock the phone.
As you see, Google is testing things in these Android 14 betasbut Rahman himself indicates that the function is not as visible as it should be and that it is possible that, although it was implemented in the beta version, it will end up not reaching the version end of the system.
And that’s it, I think it’s clear that a PIN is less secure than a password and, in addition, Google wants us to use the fingerprint to unlock the phone and log in to Android applications, so it may not be possible to use this automatic confirmation in the stock version of the system and in its Pixels .
