I don't use any security for my phone. To get open it you just double tap the screen. I have no need for a PIN/password. I've been using the secure folder on my S24 Ultra for over a year. With a recent update I'm now being forced to add a PIN/code to access my phone in order to use the secure folder. Why does Samsung force me to add a password to the phone when I don't want one? I use the secure folder to lock up anything I want and it is behind a password. My phone has no need for it.
I don't want a password on my phone so I can open my phone and use apps without having to type a pin. The password on the secured folder is enough security to have kept others from accessing my info in the past. When I lend my phone to others I now have to tell them my pin, thus providing others with my secure info. The secured folder had a password nobody knew amd was enough. Now others know what I set for a pin and often start snooping through my phone as before I had no pin, and now I do. Now when I let others use my phone they question why I have a pin now and thus I have to explain it's because of the secured folder requirement, and now people know I have a secured folder and ask questions. I would rather have my secured folder with a password and no password on my phone so others can use it. I have a password on my banking app and that was enough for a financial instution, it should be enough for a phone manufacturer. Let me set a password on the folder and let me keep my phone without a pin or biometrics, please.
Yeah I find this highly annoying also. I dont use a pin or swipe pattern or biometrics to unlock my phone. And shouldn't have to require having to set it up just to use my secure folder. They should have given the option in the update the choice to toggle this option on or off.
Dear people in charge of our updates, this feature shouldn't be your choice it should be ours, hope you change it back in next update.
