Forgot your Android phone password, PIN, or lock pattern and can’t get past the lock screen? On modern Android phones, there’s no way to unlock your phone without resetting it. To use it again, you ...

Android secures your device by asking you for a PIN, pattern, or full password. What happens if you forget the security method you set up? If you're lucky, you can get back in easily—but that may not ...

Often, in our haste—or after setting a new password or pattern—we end up forgetting it. Alternatively, young children at home sometimes set a password or pattern that they cannot recall, resulting in ...

(For older versions of Android, you may not be able to power down your phone when it's locked without inputting your password.) For Samsung phones with a separate Power button (Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, ...