Your Android smartphone comes with a handful of built-in safeguards, including a PIN, pattern, or password for the lock screen. For additional safety, Android has long supported SIM PIN lock. When enabled, it prompts the user for the PIN each time the phone is rebooted or when the SIM is switched to another device.
While handy, the fact that this requires the SIM card PIN each time you reboot the device can be irritating. With the second beta of Android 17, Google was found to be working on a feature to address this scenario. We’re now getting a good look at this feature, courtesy of a report from Android Authority on the recently released Android Canary 2603.
While the previous leak only revealed the underlying code for this feature, the new Canary release brings…