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My Pixel 3 prompted me to turn off the auto-locking feature when I was at home because it saw that I unlocked my phone a lot in that geofenced location. It also did that at my old job as well since the situation was pretty similar. I would get this prompt about once a month.

So I would agree, it's not a hard push, Google is def nudging people towards less secure logins. My S10+ asked me this same question about a week into owning the phone, but it never bothered me about it again once I declined. And at no point in either system was the I made aware of the risks I was accepting if I enabled it.

So, not a Google specific issue, but it's a less than ideal approach considering how sensitive peoples phones are today.



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