Enter the wrong PIN 13 times and your Galaxy phone is locked for good
Samsung is making the lock screen much harder to break on Galaxy devices launching with Android 17-based One UI 9. Enter the wrong PIN, pattern, or password 13 times, and the phone will stop accepting attempts. A full factory reset will then be the only way to use it again.
- ▪Samsung is making the lock screen much harder to break on Galaxy devices launching with Android 17-based One UI 9.
- ▪Enter the wrong PIN, pattern, or password 13 times, and the phone will stop accepting attempts.
- ▪A full factory reset will then be the only way to use it again.
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Samsung is making the lock screen much harder to break on Galaxy devices launching with Android 17-based One UI 9. Enter the wrong PIN, pattern, or password 13 times, and the phone will stop accepting attempts. A full factory reset will then be the only way to use it again. The change is designed to stop brute-force attacks, where someone repeatedly guesses different passwords until one works. It is a major shift from older One UI versions, which mainly relied on temporary waiting periods rather than a mandatory final lockout. How is One UI 9.0 changing failed unlock attempts? On previous One UI versions, entering the wrong PIN only triggered longer waiting periods. Once the timer ended, users could try again with no permanent limit.
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