Your Galaxy phone will soon force a factory reset if you forget its PIN

TL;DR A Samsung document confirms that One UI 9 will cap the number of incorrect PIN, password, or pattern attempts to just 13. This is part of the recent changes to Android 17, though Samsung’s implementation is much stricter. Samsung will ignore repeated attempts with the same password or PIN, and such attempts won’t count toward the overall failed-attempt tally.

We’ve all been in situations where we’ve entered the PIN for our Android phone ‘s lock screen incorrectly. The Android platform used to be fairly lenient about the number of incorrect PIN attempts allowed on the lock screen. As we recently learned, Google has tightened the screws a little with Android 17 .

These changes are expectedly trickling down to One UI 9, though Samsung is taking a more aggressive approach. According to a support document published over the weekend, One UI 9 is adopting “stricter lock screen security measures” for consecutive incorrect attempts of the lock screen pattern, PIN, or password. While Android 17 cut down the number of attempts from 1,800 over a five-year period to just 20, One UI 9 is capping that to just 13, with users having to wait 24 hours if they get it wrong 12 times (via SammyGuru ).