25 Best Android Tips to Make Your Phone More Useful

 Android phones all offer various forms of secure lock screens. Most phones will prompt you to do this during setup now, and you should. The defaults are PIN, pattern, and password. Most devices now offer fingerprint security, which is probably the fastest way to unlock your device. To control your lock screen, head to the system settings, and find the Security menu. Some phones have a separate lock screen menu instead. You will need a secure lock screen to use features like Google Pay and factory reset protection. Keep in mind some phones will offer face unlock as an option, but virtually no current phones can do that safely—they just use the selfie camera. However, Google's latest Pixels can do face unlock with the camera in a secure way. That's the exception to the rule.