How do I turn this annoying feature off?

[Antony Guan]

This feature came out of no where, I never enabled it but once I launched Buzzfeed for the first time on the phone then this started happening but I don't think it's the apps fault since I have uninstalled it. Instead of using the fingerprint sensor like always to unlock, I get this message "Enter pattern instead of fingerprint recognition because of security policy". I've tried to find a solution to this but everything I looks to be talking about the double tap to lock gesture on nova launcher but I never used that gesture also they talked about an update that was around April too. I looked into device admins in the settings, there was a nova launcher permission to lock the screen and I turned that off but that message stilled popped up saying I needed to enter my pattern instead sometimes. This occurs mostly when I'm in an app and when the screen is turned off, after a certain time period that message will pop up which is very annoying. So how do I fix this issue I feel like factory reset wouldn't fix it and feel like it's a software issue but is there a solution to fix this annoying problem?

 

[chanchan05]

That screen usually pops up when you have an app controlling when the phone screen is turned off an locked. Do you have any app that does that? Maybe a power saver app?

 

[Antony Guan]

I don't think so, but where could I find out what app is doing this?

 

[Antony Guan]

That screen usually pops up when you have an app controlling when the phone screen is turned off an locked. Do you have any app that does that? Maybe a power saver app?

wait, the screen lights up for no reason, so something is happening to force me to enter the pattern

 

[Antony Guan]

wait now my screen lights up for notifications wtf that never happens

 

[chanchan05]

Is there an app that has a setting to unlock the phone on notification? There are some apps with that setting. It may also cause than due to security concerns.

 

[Antony Guan]

There is probably but I can't seem to find it

 

[Antony Guan]

I checked in the device admins, disables the ones that says to lock my phone but that pop up keeps coming up still

 

[Antony Guan]

Fixed it, it was something to do with light flow it was in the other security settings