"Extend Unlock" not working with "Trusted Places" (i.e., Home)

[Mike246]

On my Samsung S23 Ultra (through Verizon), the "Extend Unlock" feature is not working with "Trusted Places" (set to my home address selected using Google Maps) while I am home. Even with that set in "Trusted Places" (and being there!), I'm having to enter my phone's 4-digit PIN *each* time I turn on my phone -- even if it's a minute after it was on the previous time. (I also have a "Trusted Device" specified (my laptop which is almost always running), but my phone doesn't appear to recognize that either as I still have to input my phone's 4-digit PIN each time I turn it on.) This is very frustrating!

[Carlw4]

Agreed!!!! Frustrating and disappointing 

[Berta_C]

Hi - sorry, I can't find what you've done, exactly, to make it work for you? 

Reading through all the suggestions and advice on this thread  (and having tried several - though not all - myself) it seems that *nothing anyone else has tried has worked reliably for them (the reason I haven't tried all of the suggestions has been that other people have already found them ineffective).

To recap my own situation: I have a new zflip 6, have entered my home address as a Trusted Place in Extend Unlock (as both a street address and a Google maps coordinate), but - as with almost all others on this thread, collectively using a variety of different Samsung models - I still have to unlock it manually, even while I'm home, every single time I want to use it. Every. Single. Time. Even when I haven't left the house.

Also, I am unable to delete or disable my Home address now, inside Trusted Places (I can only toggle it "on" or "off") - so I can't even re-set it. When I try, it just tells me that my address is *already a "Trusted Place."

Can you please tell us what exactly you've done to make this work for you?

thanks so much -

[Ginge1]

Can I also mention that I had the same problem. I've since discovered that where the email address for the account is showing as the default, somehow defaults to an account I set up for my dad. So I have to keep switching it back to mine. I have 3 of my own email addresses and it keeps defaulting to my dad's? It's very strange as I don't know why it does that?

[Carlw4]

Good info, thanks for sharing. Probably no one knows.

[Berta_C]

Oh jeez. (I thought maybe it was an account email thing for me at one point, too, and made sure both of them had my home address listed as Trusted... but alas.

[Berta_C]

PS Yesterday I tried the trick someone else had suggested, of adding a couple of neighbors' addresses to Trusted Places, just to widen the range.

But that didn't help either... 😞

[Ginge1]

I've since found that the extend lock feature only supposidly lasts for 4 hours. If you don't use your phone in that time, the pin code is required.
I think its a poorly thought out feature tbh. Ah well.

[Members_aW5biaD]

It works ! Turning off Wifi Scanning is the answer 👍

[Berta_C]

Great tip Danny, thanks! I'm trying it too... will report back

[Berta_C]

Hey, thanks for Replying to Danny - I missed his post the first time round, but caught yours - I'm trying it now! ❤️