Change Lock Screen Security to a Pattern on Lenovo A7000

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Video: Change Lock Screen Security to a Pattern on Lenovo A7000

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You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to change the lock-screen security type to "Pattern" on the Lenovo A7000-series smartphone.

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   In order to change the lock-screen security type, we are going to need to tap the gear-shaped Settings icon on the home screen of the phone

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   If we don't have the Settings icon, we simply swipe down from the top

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   We'll open the notifications panel.

   

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   We swipe down from the top again

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   We will see the full notification area and the gear-shaped Settings icon.

   

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   We tap the Settings icon once

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   We will be taken to the main "Settings" panel.

   

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   In the main "Settings" panel, we tap the "Lock screen" icon

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   The icon has a green circle and a white padlock inside. It is labelled "Lock screen". Once we've tapped "Lock screen", we will be in the "Lock screen" area.

   

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   We tap the first option, "Screen lock", under "SCREEN SECURITY"

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   In this video, "Screen lock" is set to "None".

   

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   Then we tap on "Pattern"

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   Once we've tapped on "Pattern", we simply swipe through with our finger to draw a very simple pattern

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   In this case, an "L" shape was chosen.

   

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   Now, we are going to tap on "Continue"

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    Now, we need to draw the pattern again

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    We tap on "Confirm"

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    This will confirm our pattern being set.

    

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    In order to test the pattern, we press the power button one time on our phone

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    One press on the power button will lock the phone.

    

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    We press the power button once more

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    We will unlock the phone.

    

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    We need to swipe up to unlock the screen

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    Now, we are required to enter the pattern

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    We will swipe through our pattern. This will unlock our phone.

    

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This concludes our tutorial on how to change the lock-screen security type to "Pattern" on your Lenovo A7000-series smartphone. If you have additional questions, comments, or suggestions, please leave them in the area provided below. Thanks for choosing VisiHow! Have a great day!

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