Security Settings, Biometrics & Smart Lock Tutorial for Galaxy S9

**Smart Lock Settings on Samsung Galaxy S9**

Once you connect your phone to your watch, you'll notice that it will ask if you want to add this as a trusted device. This means that you won't have to enter your pattern or swipe the phone to unlock it. Instead, the phone will automatically unlock when you approach it with your watch connected. However, this also means that anyone nearby can potentially unlock the phone, so you'll need to decide whether to use this setting.

**Secure Lock Settings**

To access the secure lock settings on your Samsung Galaxy S9, go to the Security settings section. Here, you can see various options to enhance the security of your device. One option is to verify your pattern visibility, which allows you to turn it off and prevent others from seeing your pattern. Another option is to set the lock automatically, which can be set to immediately lock the phone or after a specified delay.

For example, if you set the lock to immediately lock with the power key, pressing the button will unlock the phone, requiring only a biometric scan or pattern entry. However, if smart lock is enabled (which we'll discuss later), this setting won't be applicable. To test this setting, press the power button and then attempt to unlock the phone. You should not need to enter any biometrics or pattern to access the phone.

**Lock Screen Settings**

When you're connected to your watch, the lock screen will display a message indicating that it's locked by smart lock. This means that if someone is nearby and tries to unlock the phone, they won't be able to do so unless they have the necessary permissions. However, this also means that when you approach the phone with your watch connected, it may become unlocked.

To adjust the lock screen settings, go to the Lock Screen section of the Security settings. Here, you can turn off the pattern visibility and set the lock automatically. You can choose from various options, including immediately locking the phone or after a specified delay. The Auto Factory Reset option allows the device to reset itself after a specified number of failed attempts.

**Network and Security Settings**

In addition to the lock screen settings, you'll also find the Network and Security section under the Lock Screen category. This setting allows you to lock your device to the local network or Wi-Fi connection, making it more difficult for someone to access your phone without permission.

Finally, the Iris Scanner section allows you to customize the preview screen mask for the iris scanner feature. By default, this feature will display a creepy grayish video; however, you can choose from various frames to make the experience less intimidating. To use this feature, you'll need to turn off Intelligent Scan and then enable Iris Unlocked.

By adjusting these settings, you can customize your Samsung Galaxy S9's security features to suit your needs and keep your device secure from unauthorized access.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've recently had a lot of questions about the security settings of the Samsung Galaxy S 9 in this video I'm gonna cover all the things that you can do and how they work let's get started everybody welcome to tech with Brett where I help tech work for you and let's dive right into the security settings now these will be the same on the samsung galaxy s 9 or the s 9 plus so let's head right into the settings of the phone I like to pull down the notification shade and select the gear up here in the top right and that will go into the settings of the phone and then down here you see the option for lockscreen and security so we're gonna open that up and right here at the top you see the screen lock type so right now it is set to swipe so swipe is where when you go to unlock your phone all you need to do is swipe the screen and it will unlock now you have a bunch of different options here you have the swipe you have pattern pin password and nones now the password is the highest form of security because you can have all kinds of different characters a whole phrase alright within there and then down here you have the biometric settings so we're gonna go back real quick here we have phone security and then we have biometrics and if you want to learn about lock screen and always-on display I have covered that in a different video and security I'll probably cover in a different video as well so we're just going to talk about the top ones here at the very top so right here is how you change the screen lock type let's briefly overview what these do so swipe allows you to quickly get into your phone with a swipe there will be no form of security with that second is a pattern so that's a preset pattern that you choose pin would be a series of numbers at least four numbers and then the password is the highest security because you can actually add multiple characters and you can have phrases and then none has no security or anything on the lock screen so if we go to the lock screen we press the power button it goes right into the phone there is no swipe required so let's go back into here and I am going to choose no swipe and then down here under biometrics these are the other ways that we could lock our phone so here we have intelligence scan intelligence scan uses the iris scanner or the face unlock to unlock your phone so it's able to use both of those it's great especially if you're to use your phone at night and your phone can't see you with the face unlock IRIScan will pick up and so it will switch between those two automatically here you have the face recognition so this is one of the faster ways to get into your phone if you're using the biometric because it just needs to look at the shape of your face and then down here you have the iris scanner so the iris will actually illuminate infrared light right here and over here you have a sensor that will read your iris and can unlock your phone it's said to be the most secure of the biometrics and then here you have the fingerprint scanner so first let's start by adding intelligent scan so to add intelligent scan you will need to add a secure lock so a pin code a pattern or a password to verify in case the biometrics don't work so we're just going to put a simple pattern on here so I could go down and up and then we need to continue and we need to verify that is the pattern we chose once we have done that now we can go and set up our biometrics so I'm going to click continue here and now we are going to register my face so make sure you are within 20 to 50 some years once it sees you it will then register the face and now we are going to register the iris so you need to be within 25 to 35 centimetres position your eyes in the circles shown on screen and there we have my iris registered and here's where you can set up some of the lock screen settings so once you add a form of security you can choose to have it hide content on your lock screen so if you get a text message it would actually hide what the text actually says if you select hide content here you could have it show only the notification icons and you could actually make the color transparent or not right there so you do have all those settings right there once you set up the form of security so here we have a few options we could remove our iris and our face data if we want to here we can use Samsung path so this is a way to save all your passwords on your Samsung Account we could check that so here we can turn off the intelligent scan and then this last one is you can have it so it automatically starts scanning for your face as soon as you press the power button if you turn this off you will have to swipe your screen first before it's able to scan your iris this is definitely the fastest way to unlock your phone so keep that enabled so let's check out how this works so now i lock my phone unlock it and boom it went right in because it saw my face well let's say it can't see all of my face so it couldn't verify my face but it used the iris that time to go into the phone so whether can see your face or your iris it actually goes in really quickly so now let's go and add the fingerprint scanner so here we willing to verify the pattern that we have created and now one of the coolest things about this is it's super easy to add the fingerprint onto the back of the phone so it's now right under the camera so all we need to do is swipe down and it will register our fingerprints so we just place it right here and we swipe down and usually I can do it in one time and it will add the fingerprints so here we could add multiple fingerprints if we want we're just going to keep it simple and add that one right now so now it's asking to try it out and there it unlocked so here it is asking if you want to turn on the fingerprint to unlock the phone so even though you swipe to add the fingerprint you only need to set your fingerprint onto the fingerprint reader for it to unlock the phone and here we have the fingerprint options where we can add multiple fingerprints verify with Samsung pass and Samsung pay and then unlock the phone with the fingerprint so you could have it just on there but here it is verifying that you want to use all of those biometrics to unlock your phone so this will work with the face unlock with the iris and with the fingerprint all right there so if we go back now let's say we want to unlock the phone all we need to do is place the finger on the fingerprint reader and there it unlocked the phone I didn't have to swipe do anything very quickly and then you can see that it still is reading my face no problem so you have all of those options available at once now here you could choose to just have it do the face recognition where it's only going to look at the shape of your face or here you can choose to have just the iris so maybe you don't want one of those to be enabled here is where you would adjust those settings now that we've set up our secure lock and the biometrics let's talk about a few extra features so one thing I want to show you is if for some reason it cannot verify any of those your fingerprint your face your iris down here at the bottom you can swipe and then you still have the pattern that you can get into so if you use the pattern or the pin code you would still have that option now let's go into what is called smart lock so smart lock allows your phone to be locked depending on a location or if you have any accessories attached to your phone or even if you were just moving around it can detect that's right here the first one is on body detection so this will allow your device to not lock while you are using it and then once you sit it down for a period of time it will lock the device let's go back here we have trusted places so let's say you want to add your home as a place where your phone never locks you can actually add your location and then whenever you're home it will not automatically lock your phone and then it won't show you the lock screen settings whenever you want to unlock your phone and here it says that the radius is within 80 metres of the trusted place so there you could go and add the trusted places next we have trusted devices and this is the one that I typically use the most so this will work if you have any Bluetooth watch or Bluetooth headset or even a Bluetooth car system it will automatically unlock your phone when you are paired to one of those devices because typically you would have both of them on you at the same time and if you disconnect then it locks your phone again so here we're gonna add a trusted device and right now I have the gear sport connected to my Galaxy S 9 so once I select that then it asks if you want to add this as a trusted device and there you can see I have the gear sports so what that means is that I will no longer have to put in my pattern or I would just need to swipe the phone to unlock it right now when I have a trusted device set up and then the last one here is you have set up voice match so if I use my okay Google it will actually unlock the phone with verifying my voice so if others try to unlock the it wouldn't be able to hear them if my phone was unlocked they could still use that command to talk to Google but when the phone is locked and I use the command it would need to verify my voice to be able to unlock the phone now that we have smart lock enabled let's look at the lock screen so right here you can see phone is unlocked by smart lock so that means that when I'm connect to my phone if anyone is nearby and they see my phone they could technically unlock it if I was still connected so that essentially means that if anyone is nearby let's say my kids grab my phone it would be unlocked because I'm connected to my watch so you would just need to decide if you want to use that setting so now let's go into the secure lock settings so here we will need to verify our pattern right here we have the pattern visibility at the top so we could turn that off and then you won't see the pattern as I draw it on-screen that adds some security here we have the lock automatically so once your phone is set to lock you can have it lock instantly or five seconds thirty minutes you have all of those options right there so let's say you set the immediately and then we set the lock instantly with power key with lock instantly with power key that means as soon as I press the button it should lock out the phones so it would require a biometric or my pattern to unlock the phone but if you have smart lock enabled that we just did with the watch it will not enable that so let me show you so if I press power right now and then I go to unlock the phone it did not require any biometrics or a pattern to get into the phone so let me show you how you can lock it when you have the settings set to this so if I lock the phone and then I go to unlock it if I hold down right here on the X that will actually enable the lock screen so now if I go to swipe it will require a pin code so that's nice if you quickly leave your phone and you want it to be locked you can quickly do that and then you will need to verify a biometric or your pattern when you go back into the phone right here you have the auto factory reset so if you have some very secure information on your phone somebody's trying to get into it after 15 attempts it would automatically factory reset your phone so I personally wouldn't want that checked because kids would be playing with my phone and then accidentally factory reset so I'm gonna keep that off but if you were in need of that that is where you can adjust it so this last setting here lock network and security that means that it will lock your device to the local network or whatever it is so that if you're trying to locate your device you'd be able to find it and somebody whoever has taken it can't go in and turn off your Wi-Fi easily so there are all the locks screen settings so one last cool setting that you can change in the security settings is under the iris scanner so right here we can actually go in and adjust the preview screen mask so this is what shows up when you go to unlock the iris so instead of just having a show your eyes kind of this creepy grayish video you can actually choose one of these frames so let's choose this cyborg guy here in order to use the screen mask you will have to turn off intelligent scan and then you just need to have it use your iris scan to be able to do that so here we're going to turn on iris unlocked and then here we could have it instantly unlock when the iris scanner turns on and there you can see the screen mask pop up now there are definitely tons of different options for the security settings on the samsung galaxy s 9 and will definitely fit your needs to keep it as secure as you would like if this video is helpful please hit the like button and if you can think of anyone else who would benefit from this video please share this with them if this is your first time here I'd love to have you subscribe so that you can be notified of my new and upcoming videos because I'm going to teach you all about your smart phone to your smart home thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you on the next oneI've recently had a lot of questions about the security settings of the Samsung Galaxy S 9 in this video I'm gonna cover all the things that you can do and how they work let's get started everybody welcome to tech with Brett where I help tech work for you and let's dive right into the security settings now these will be the same on the samsung galaxy s 9 or the s 9 plus so let's head right into the settings of the phone I like to pull down the notification shade and select the gear up here in the top right and that will go into the settings of the phone and then down here you see the option for lockscreen and security so we're gonna open that up and right here at the top you see the screen lock type so right now it is set to swipe so swipe is where when you go to unlock your phone all you need to do is swipe the screen and it will unlock now you have a bunch of different options here you have the swipe you have pattern pin password and nones now the password is the highest form of security because you can have all kinds of different characters a whole phrase alright within there and then down here you have the biometric settings so we're gonna go back real quick here we have phone security and then we have biometrics and if you want to learn about lock screen and always-on display I have covered that in a different video and security I'll probably cover in a different video as well so we're just going to talk about the top ones here at the very top so right here is how you change the screen lock type let's briefly overview what these do so swipe allows you to quickly get into your phone with a swipe there will be no form of security with that second is a pattern so that's a preset pattern that you choose pin would be a series of numbers at least four numbers and then the password is the highest security because you can actually add multiple characters and you can have phrases and then none has no security or anything on the lock screen so if we go to the lock screen we press the power button it goes right into the phone there is no swipe required so let's go back into here and I am going to choose no swipe and then down here under biometrics these are the other ways that we could lock our phone so here we have intelligence scan intelligence scan uses the iris scanner or the face unlock to unlock your phone so it's able to use both of those it's great especially if you're to use your phone at night and your phone can't see you with the face unlock IRIScan will pick up and so it will switch between those two automatically here you have the face recognition so this is one of the faster ways to get into your phone if you're using the biometric because it just needs to look at the shape of your face and then down here you have the iris scanner so the iris will actually illuminate infrared light right here and over here you have a sensor that will read your iris and can unlock your phone it's said to be the most secure of the biometrics and then here you have the fingerprint scanner so first let's start by adding intelligent scan so to add intelligent scan you will need to add a secure lock so a pin code a pattern or a password to verify in case the biometrics don't work so we're just going to put a simple pattern on here so I could go down and up and then we need to continue and we need to verify that is the pattern we chose once we have done that now we can go and set up our biometrics so I'm going to click continue here and now we are going to register my face so make sure you are within 20 to 50 some years once it sees you it will then register the face and now we are going to register the iris so you need to be within 25 to 35 centimetres position your eyes in the circles shown on screen and there we have my iris registered and here's where you can set up some of the lock screen settings so once you add a form of security you can choose to have it hide content on your lock screen so if you get a text message it would actually hide what the text actually says if you select hide content here you could have it show only the notification icons and you could actually make the color transparent or not right there so you do have all those settings right there once you set up the form of security so here we have a few options we could remove our iris and our face data if we want to here we can use Samsung path so this is a way to save all your passwords on your Samsung Account we could check that so here we can turn off the intelligent scan and then this last one is you can have it so it automatically starts scanning for your face as soon as you press the power button if you turn this off you will have to swipe your screen first before it's able to scan your iris this is definitely the fastest way to unlock your phone so keep that enabled so let's check out how this works so now i lock my phone unlock it and boom it went right in because it saw my face well let's say it can't see all of my face so it couldn't verify my face but it used the iris that time to go into the phone so whether can see your face or your iris it actually goes in really quickly so now let's go and add the fingerprint scanner so here we willing to verify the pattern that we have created and now one of the coolest things about this is it's super easy to add the fingerprint onto the back of the phone so it's now right under the camera so all we need to do is swipe down and it will register our fingerprints so we just place it right here and we swipe down and usually I can do it in one time and it will add the fingerprints so here we could add multiple fingerprints if we want we're just going to keep it simple and add that one right now so now it's asking to try it out and there it unlocked so here it is asking if you want to turn on the fingerprint to unlock the phone so even though you swipe to add the fingerprint you only need to set your fingerprint onto the fingerprint reader for it to unlock the phone and here we have the fingerprint options where we can add multiple fingerprints verify with Samsung pass and Samsung pay and then unlock the phone with the fingerprint so you could have it just on there but here it is verifying that you want to use all of those biometrics to unlock your phone so this will work with the face unlock with the iris and with the fingerprint all right there so if we go back now let's say we want to unlock the phone all we need to do is place the finger on the fingerprint reader and there it unlocked the phone I didn't have to swipe do anything very quickly and then you can see that it still is reading my face no problem so you have all of those options available at once now here you could choose to just have it do the face recognition where it's only going to look at the shape of your face or here you can choose to have just the iris so maybe you don't want one of those to be enabled here is where you would adjust those settings now that we've set up our secure lock and the biometrics let's talk about a few extra features so one thing I want to show you is if for some reason it cannot verify any of those your fingerprint your face your iris down here at the bottom you can swipe and then you still have the pattern that you can get into so if you use the pattern or the pin code you would still have that option now let's go into what is called smart lock so smart lock allows your phone to be locked depending on a location or if you have any accessories attached to your phone or even if you were just moving around it can detect that's right here the first one is on body detection so this will allow your device to not lock while you are using it and then once you sit it down for a period of time it will lock the device let's go back here we have trusted places so let's say you want to add your home as a place where your phone never locks you can actually add your location and then whenever you're home it will not automatically lock your phone and then it won't show you the lock screen settings whenever you want to unlock your phone and here it says that the radius is within 80 metres of the trusted place so there you could go and add the trusted places next we have trusted devices and this is the one that I typically use the most so this will work if you have any Bluetooth watch or Bluetooth headset or even a Bluetooth car system it will automatically unlock your phone when you are paired to one of those devices because typically you would have both of them on you at the same time and if you disconnect then it locks your phone again so here we're gonna add a trusted device and right now I have the gear sport connected to my Galaxy S 9 so once I select that then it asks if you want to add this as a trusted device and there you can see I have the gear sports so what that means is that I will no longer have to put in my pattern or I would just need to swipe the phone to unlock it right now when I have a trusted device set up and then the last one here is you have set up voice match so if I use my okay Google it will actually unlock the phone with verifying my voice so if others try to unlock the it wouldn't be able to hear them if my phone was unlocked they could still use that command to talk to Google but when the phone is locked and I use the command it would need to verify my voice to be able to unlock the phone now that we have smart lock enabled let's look at the lock screen so right here you can see phone is unlocked by smart lock so that means that when I'm connect to my phone if anyone is nearby and they see my phone they could technically unlock it if I was still connected so that essentially means that if anyone is nearby let's say my kids grab my phone it would be unlocked because I'm connected to my watch so you would just need to decide if you want to use that setting so now let's go into the secure lock settings so here we will need to verify our pattern right here we have the pattern visibility at the top so we could turn that off and then you won't see the pattern as I draw it on-screen that adds some security here we have the lock automatically so once your phone is set to lock you can have it lock instantly or five seconds thirty minutes you have all of those options right there so let's say you set the immediately and then we set the lock instantly with power key with lock instantly with power key that means as soon as I press the button it should lock out the phones so it would require a biometric or my pattern to unlock the phone but if you have smart lock enabled that we just did with the watch it will not enable that so let me show you so if I press power right now and then I go to unlock the phone it did not require any biometrics or a pattern to get into the phone so let me show you how you can lock it when you have the settings set to this so if I lock the phone and then I go to unlock it if I hold down right here on the X that will actually enable the lock screen so now if I go to swipe it will require a pin code so that's nice if you quickly leave your phone and you want it to be locked you can quickly do that and then you will need to verify a biometric or your pattern when you go back into the phone right here you have the auto factory reset so if you have some very secure information on your phone somebody's trying to get into it after 15 attempts it would automatically factory reset your phone so I personally wouldn't want that checked because kids would be playing with my phone and then accidentally factory reset so I'm gonna keep that off but if you were in need of that that is where you can adjust it so this last setting here lock network and security that means that it will lock your device to the local network or whatever it is so that if you're trying to locate your device you'd be able to find it and somebody whoever has taken it can't go in and turn off your Wi-Fi easily so there are all the locks screen settings so one last cool setting that you can change in the security settings is under the iris scanner so right here we can actually go in and adjust the preview screen mask so this is what shows up when you go to unlock the iris so instead of just having a show your eyes kind of this creepy grayish video you can actually choose one of these frames so let's choose this cyborg guy here in order to use the screen mask you will have to turn off intelligent scan and then you just need to have it use your iris scan to be able to do that so here we're going to turn on iris unlocked and then here we could have it instantly unlock when the iris scanner turns on and there you can see the screen mask pop up now there are definitely tons of different options for the security settings on the samsung galaxy s 9 and will definitely fit your needs to keep it as secure as you would like if this video is helpful please hit the like button and if you can think of anyone else who would benefit from this video please share this with them if this is your first time here I'd love to have you subscribe so that you can be notified of my new and upcoming videos because I'm going to teach you all about your smart phone to your smart home thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you on the next one\n"