A thief flags you down, grabs your phone and makes you unlock it using your thumb.
A cop opens the cop car door, grabs your hand and unlocks your phone, or even easier, face unlock.
Granted, guns and torture are rather effective as well, but is anyone entirely against fingerprint unlocking?
Do NOT use biometric unlock in the U.S.
Law enforcement can force you to open the phone vs. requiring a warrant for PIN/Password.
Same with face unlock, not requiring a warrant, if I’m remembering correctly
Yes
If you don’t have time to quickly disable biometrics (lockdown mode) before the cops grab it, you wouldn’t have time to turn it off either. A phone in AFU mode is very easily cracked with those forensic devices.
And they could just beat you for the password either way, given the current political atmosphere.
We’re deporting citizens. The distance between biometrics and passcode is not much legally, because if they want to, they’re going to make you or send you to the gulag.
And even if you tell them, probably still send you to the gulag.