{"id":371368,"date":"2026-07-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371368"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:00:09","slug":"android-17-tightens-lock-screen-security-guess-limit-drops-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-17-tightens-lock-screen-security-guess-limit-drops-to-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 tightens lock screen security: guess limit drops to 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Android 17 tightens up lock-screen security on supported phones by cutting failed passcode attempts down to <strong>20 total<\/strong>. That\u2019s a big drop from the current setup, where an attacker could stretch roughly 1,800 guesses over five years.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new limits ramp up fast. You get about <strong>six wrong tries<\/strong> in the first minute, seven within six minutes, eight within 25 minutes, and around 12 across a full day. Hit 20 total failed attempts, and the device locks for good.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s one small exception: if you keep typing the same wrong PIN, Android 17 doesn\u2019t treat every repeat as a separate <strong>attempt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The target here is pretty obvious. Google wants to make <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-new-security-measures-of-android-will-make-phone-thieves-think-twice\" rel=\"noopener\">brute-force attacks<\/a><\/strong> a lot less practical, especially against weak PINs like birthdays or easy patterns with repeated digits.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Android 17 also brings clearer lockout messages that show <strong>wait times<\/strong> in minutes, plus a recovery shortcut right on the lock screen. And this sits inside a wider security push from Google: a tougher Mark as lost feature in Find Hub with biometric locking, on-device Live Threat Detection, tighter parental controls, and new rules around local network permissions.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re still using a simple PIN, this is an update you\u2019ll probably want. The trade-off is that the <strong>stricter lockouts<\/strong> could be a pain if you\u2019re the one who forgets your code.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These changes arrive as part of Android 17 once the update rolls out to <strong>supported Android devices<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 tightens up lock-screen security on supported phones by cutting failed passcode attempts down to 20 total. That\u2019s a big drop from the current setup, where an attacker could stretch roughly 1,800 guesses over five years. The new limits ramp up fast. You get about six wrong tries in the first minute, seven within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-17-tightens-lock-screen-security-guess-limit-drops-to-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Android 17 tightens lock screen security: guess limit drops to 20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371369,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371368\/revisions\/371369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371368"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371368"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371368"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}