A pattern lock on a s23

[fingers21]

My son locked his phone by a pattern but forgot the pattern can you by pass the pattern.

[Tourbillon De La Vie]

No

[arianwen27]

You have to force shut down the device, enter the recovery menu, then force a reset. There's no bypass

[Piper123]

Could you son not force it to provide the option to enter the pin? (assumes he hasn't forgotten that either)

[fingers21]

Its not giving that option or he would

[Piper123]

Force shut down then restart.

At some point it should request pin