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by iudqnolq 2327 days ago
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.
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vgb2k18 2327 days ago
> 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

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h4waii 2326 days ago
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.
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vgb2k18 2326 days ago
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.
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