I just upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S10e to Android 11 (One UI 3.0), and the lock screen PIN buttons have changed appearance.
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Before, the lock-screen PIN had something with square buttons, except they were larger & took up the whole middle of the lock screen. Now, they are shifted up, smaller (circular with spaces between them), and less responsive.
This seems like a terrible idea from a UX standpoint- completely messing up my muscle-memory; now every time I try to log in to my phone, I screw up the PIN at least twice, and it's very annoying.
When I try to look up this issue, most of the responses will be about changing my PIN lock method to a password/pattern, etc., lock method, or changing the PIN itself. Those Q&As I've found addressing the appearance/behavior of the lock screen tend to say it's inbuilt to the system & nothing you can do except for really cracking your phone software. I also don't see anything in Accessibility options, but maybe I'm missing something.
Any ideas, or is this really something I'm going to have to put up with?


Asked by Colin Stewart
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Feb 26, 2021, 10:32 PM
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