Add a Lock Screen Message on a Nexus 6P

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, I'm going to demonstrate how to add a lock-screen message on your Nexus 6P.

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   This could be useful if you lose your phone and want to give a method of contact to somebody who finds your phone and wants to be a Good Samaritan

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   To start, take two fingers and swipe down from the home screen.

   

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   This will reveal the "Settings" icon, which looks like a gear shaped icon

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   Tap on it.

   

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   Now you will scroll down until you reach "Security." Tap on it once

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   Then, tap on "Lock screen message."

   

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   Type the message

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   The typed in message is this: "If found please call 555 1213." Of course you would want to use a real phone number and probably not the phone number on your device, since if you've lost it there is no use of having them call you, but may be a trusted friend of whom you can leave the phone number or office phone number.

   

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   One you have entered that, hit "SAVE."

   

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   Now we can press the Circle button and go back to the home screen

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   We can lock the device by pressing the Power button

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   When we hit unlock, we will see that the message we have set is now displayed here

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   "If found please call 555 1213."

   

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