Aside from lock screen and biometrics security, Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones also have a dedicated feature for locking apps. The feature is called app lock. Enabling app lock is recommended to prevent ...

App Lock is one of the MIUI security features that allows you to lock apps with a password, pattern or fingerprint. When enabled, access to certain apps is prohibited unless the correct pin, pattern, ...

Many people use smartphones and tablets as their primary devices, meaning they often contain apps with sensitive data. These can include, for example, banking and investment apps, photo apps with ...

Android's pattern lock, which lets you unlock your phone by swiping a specific pattern across the screen, may seem more secure than a password, but that's not always the case. While Android's pattern ...

In this modern age of smartphones, mobile banking, security apps, PayPal, Electronic Wallets, websites and even Starbucks, we are inundated with passwords. In the old days, before wireless mobile ...

Setting a lock code on an app-by-app basis is a great way to add another level of security to your device. With App Lock, it's as easy as setting a PIN. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful ...

Handing your phone to someone else, even for a moment, is one of the riskiest things most people do with their devices without thinking. Buried in both iOS and Android is a simple lock that can freeze ...

Android users may want to reconsider their lock screen patterns. A new study shows that most of us are using very similar patterns to unlock our handsets. Norwegian University of Science and ...

Onavo, the data-security app maker Facebook acquired in 2013 in order gain insights into mobile user activity across apps, has quietly launched a new app aimed at Android users called Bolt App Lock.