How to activate Smart Lock, the Android security system

If you have a smart phone that uses Android, you have access to a security system that the OS has integrated.

Protecting your mobile phone is almost the first thing you do when you take it out of the box. It is a constant, a priority, and unlocking it is a process that we do about 85 times a day - the average several times a person usually looks at their smart phone a day. Drawing the pattern, putting your finger on the fingerprint reader or entering the password is something that we do automatically, but it is also sometimes tedious if we have to check the mobile phone every so often for a specific reason. 

Unlock the mobile without using your hands

Is there a way to lock the mobile but then not have to enter the password or draw the pattern every time we want to access it? There is, and it is called Smart Lock , a standard function in the Android operating system without going back to a previous version and that automatically locks the phone when you do not carry it around based on different settings that can be GPS, gyroscopic, etc.

When the device is protected, it unlocks it, and we can set Android to unlock the mobile based on Bluetooth or NFC connections, trusted locations , if you carry the terminal with you or if it recognizes your face or voice. In this way there will be no need to resort to manual unlocking and we will not depend on the PIN, pattern or password. This is how you can activate it on Android:

Step 1: The first thing is to look for the Settings app, represented by a gear or nut, and when you go in search for Personal> Security or directly in Settings the Lock Screen and Security option .

Step 2: When entering it, we should see (depending on the model) the Smart Lock option or A Secure Lock Settings> Smart Lock. Click on it and it will ask for the mobile password to access the settings. This is necessary every time we want to change something here.

We can configure smart lock so that it is unlocked when detecting that we carry it with us

Step 3: Now you can configure Smart Lock so that the phone unlocks under four different conditions and ways without having to do it manually:

- When you carry your device with you , for example subject in the hand or in the pocket. The mobile will lock again when it detects that it has been deposited on a surface.

- When your device is in a certain place, which requires using the terminal's GPS and establishing the locations where it will do so.

-When you are connected to a certain Bluetooth device , a device classified as "safe" according to Android, that is, a device to which we have already connected the mobile.

- When your device recognizes your face and / or your voice (the voice command through Google is only used in Android 9 or lower, it is not for Android 10)