Flight mode from top menu without lock screen code

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asked 2019-07-29 12:33:25 +0200

tomas3000
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Please make (like on iPhone) the flight mode from the top menu available without lock screen code. For privacy reasons, relaxing, flights and risk of cell phone radiation I switch to flight mode and back several times a day. It is annoying to always enter the security code.

Other features (torch, volume, camera, ..) are also available without lock screen code so it will be easily possible and saves a lot of time!

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If a thief stole my phone, or I mislaid it and somebody found it, I might prefer they couldn't enable flight mode. I might have a tracking app, or I might want to ring it to find its location.

DaveRo ( 2019-07-29 13:03:39 +0200 )edit

A thief could also switch on torch, let the phone run out of battery and you have the same... Apple also have a "find my phone" function and it is possible to flight mode the phone while locked...

tomas3000 ( 2019-07-29 13:14:38 +0200 )edit

What about Hotspot? Also not possible without lockscreen-code... But would be great if...

tomas3000 ( 2019-07-29 13:15:52 +0200 )edit

I can see arguments for and against. What the iPhone does is neither.

DaveRo ( 2019-07-29 13:30:53 +0200 )edit

I can also see your argument of a stolen phone. But if Apple have decided to set it free, I suspect they did research and found this to be the best trade-off between usability and security. Maybe a solution for users who do not want to compromise security could be, that they simply do not integrate the flight mode switch in the top menu...

tomas3000 ( 2019-07-29 15:30:44 +0200 )edit

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Thank you. Yes, this is a nice workaround but too complicated for people switching from Android or iOS. I "can live" with tapping 6 times instead of 2 times several times a day. But I can also imagine, that many people getting their first impression after switching will get annoyed (especially because there a other more complicated things like "five-digit-lockscreen-code + enter" insted of "four-digit - no enter" on iPhone.

tomas3000 ( 2019-07-30 10:00:39 +0200 )edit

Much better than "hard-code the password in the script":

setup a bunch of SSH keys.
on root's profile ( /root/.ssh/authorized_keys ), setup a bunch of forced-commands.
from your scripts (or Situations) SSH to root using the SSH keys, only the forced-command will be run.

DrYak ( 2019-07-30 15:16:09 +0200 )edit

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