[dylan604]

I know lots of people that have their phones set to not lock automatically. Some of these include not locking them when they throw the phone in their purse, or put it in their back pocket. "I can't be bothered to type in my password every time I pick it up" or "My kids bother me too often to unlock the phone." It's absolutely mind boggling

[iudqnolq]

Password? I've never met someone else irl who sets a password on their phone. Best I've ever seen is a PIN.

[dylan604]

Nice to meet you. I have a pass phrase comprising 4 short words (totaling 18 characters) that are easy to remember and easy to type in. Someone is going to need the $5 wrench to figure out how to unlock my phone.

[pc86]

They obviously mean the same thing in this context.

[iudqnolq]

If you open the Android security settings you'll be asked if you want to set a password or pin. A password is longer and can contain arbitrary characters. I've never heard a person refer to a short series of numbers used to protect something as a password and not a pin.

[vgb2k18]

> I've never heard a person refer to a short series of numbers used to protect something as a password and not a pin.

Until today... Screenshot from Android phone - https://ibb.co/KD27YGL

[h4waii]

Eh, you should clarify that this is not an AOSP lockscreen. It looks like Huawei's EMUI, which is quite heavily modified and might simply be a translation error.

[vgb2k18]

Meizu phone, Flyme UI. Equally as Chinese as the Huawei you mentioned, so your point stands. Whether or not a tranlation error though, the GP had never heard of anyone using 'password' in the context of a numeric pincode, but it does happen. Who knows, I could be biased through my repeated exposures to the Meizu lock-screen, but as a native English speaker I don't have a hard time imagining a numeric-only pin being referred to as a password.

[dylan604]

Thank you. It's not like the use of the word 'password' made the point I was making difficult to understand. I had actually tried to use the word passcode, but it was auto-filled/corrected to password and I didn't catch it.

[circa]

I know a lot of people who say that too. Its awful.