Hi there and thank you in advance. I have been trying for a while now to come up with a good solution to keep my phone unlocked while at home. Especially these days, I hardly ever leave the house and it is much easier to keep it unlocked.
I like being able to use Google Assistant for a lot of things as well and keeping it unlocked helps. The first thing I tried was to use smart lock with location as that makes the most sense to me. However, it only works some of the time. I live in an apartment and the coverage area shown for the smart lock is much bigger but often I will have to unlock the device with my PIN.
Then I tried using Tasker to keep the phone unlocked while on wifi. This did not work great either. I also tried the same thing with a similar app called Automate. The main time that it seems to not work is when I wake up in the morning. I read that after the phone is idle for a certain amount of time, you will need to reauthenticate. However, I only have fingerprints and PIN active and those should (from what I understand) not be prompting so soon (Face recognition would).
It also seems to happen when I go to sleep. I will say "good night" and it is supposed to turn off all of the lights and tv and cast music to my Chromecast audio. Sometimes it works and sometimes I need to put in my PIN. Same thing in the morning. I will ask Google to turn on all the lights and it will say "Sure, but you need to unlock the device first". I read to try something called "Good Lock" which looks like a Samsung product but it appears to just do mainly visual customizations and not directly affect lock screen security. It is a minor gripe but it is so nice to be mostly asleep and to tell blindly in the dark for Google to make things happen and it seems like it would be easier than this. The only other idea I have had is to keep all security off and to activate it when pairing with bluetooth in my car but I am not sure if that is possible.
I like being able to use Google Assistant for a lot of things as well and keeping it unlocked helps. The first thing I tried was to use smart lock with location as that makes the most sense to me. However, it only works some of the time. I live in an apartment and the coverage area shown for the smart lock is much bigger but often I will have to unlock the device with my PIN.
Then I tried using Tasker to keep the phone unlocked while on wifi. This did not work great either. I also tried the same thing with a similar app called Automate. The main time that it seems to not work is when I wake up in the morning. I read that after the phone is idle for a certain amount of time, you will need to reauthenticate. However, I only have fingerprints and PIN active and those should (from what I understand) not be prompting so soon (Face recognition would).
It also seems to happen when I go to sleep. I will say "good night" and it is supposed to turn off all of the lights and tv and cast music to my Chromecast audio. Sometimes it works and sometimes I need to put in my PIN. Same thing in the morning. I will ask Google to turn on all the lights and it will say "Sure, but you need to unlock the device first". I read to try something called "Good Lock" which looks like a Samsung product but it appears to just do mainly visual customizations and not directly affect lock screen security. It is a minor gripe but it is so nice to be mostly asleep and to tell blindly in the dark for Google to make things happen and it seems like it would be easier than this. The only other idea I have had is to keep all security off and to activate it when pairing with bluetooth in my car but I am not sure if that is possible.
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