We see our lock screens all the time. If you're getting bored with your lock screen, check out these lock screen apps.

But this approach to bypassing an Android lock screen, uploaded to YouTube by jgor null yesterday, is remarkably straightforward.

Google issued its first monthly Android security patch for Nexus devices a few days ago, and one of the items in the changelog was quite interesting. Google patched a lock screen bypass ...

The smart lock feature is convenient, allowing the primary user to bypass the lock screen; however, it can introduce privacy issues when people are nearby.

After what they report was tricky timing issues with getting the method just right, they were able to entirely bypass the lock screen on the Galaxy S III, which was running Android 4.1.2.

However, Android did not introduce many improvements to lock screen widgets. The design felt clunky and unintuitive. Most users didn't know the feature existed, and some found it difficult to set up.