Google has added in the past few years several options to unlock your Android smartphone or tablet, and today has been added a new method. From now on you ‘OK Google “saying unlock your Android smartphone, though Google claims that the method is less safe compared with a code.
The feature is available after installing the Google Play Services update from the Play Store. The option to unlock your phone can be found in the Smart Lock system that was introduced by Google in Android 5.0 Lollipop. This is also the direct reason that it does not work with older versions of Android, such as Jellybean (Android 4.2 / 4.3) or KitKat (Android 4.4). The new feature called Trusted Voice is gradually rolled out and at time of writing not yet available to everyone
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In order to unlock your Android phone with your voice you say to the phone “Ok Google”, after which the voting pattern of the person in question is checked with the owner of the smartphone. Is everything and get two votes over it, then the smartphone is released automatically and displays the home screen.
According to the Google team responsible for the new Smart Lock feature is voice recognition compared with a password / PIN less secure. Research would have learned that sometimes votes are very much alike, and you can imagine you that someone who is good at imitating voices possibly someone else’s Android smartphone can unlock.
In addition to Trusted Voice, there are a number of Smart Lock options available, so there is a feature called Trusted Device, which you can unlock an Android product with another product such as an Android Wear smart watch. Trusted Places late to request your PIN at specific locations omitted, and then there’s the option to unlock your product with facial and / or an NFC tag
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