SafePhone · Getting started

Unlock the phone

Learn to unlock the phone, in 1 short step.

1 step · about 1 minute · free to practice on SafePhone

Step by step

  1. Slide UP to unlock: put your finger on the fingerprint icon near the bottom of the practice phone, then move it up. With a mouse: press and hold the button on the icon, move the mouse up, then let go.

These steps are written for SafePhone, a pretend Android-style smartphone in your web browser. On your own smartphone, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

Practice it where nothing can break

SafePhone works like a real smartphone, but nothing you do goes anywhere. Try every button, make mistakes and start again. This lesson is free.

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