Unlock at trusted places
Set up trusted places
To avoid repeatedly unlocking your phone when you are at familiar and trusted locations (like home or work), use a Extend Unlock. You can still manually lock the phone at trusted places when needed.
Make sure you have:
- Set a screen lock on the phone.
- Turned on location services.
- Entered your Home and Work locations in Maps if desired. To learn how, read Google's help.
- Go to Settings.
Tap Security & privacy > More security & privacy > Extend Unlock.
If you don't see Extend Unlock, try the following:
- Update Google Play services. In the Google Search widget on your home screen, search for “Google Play services”, then tap the app to open it.
- Go to Settings > Security & privacy > More security & privacy > Trust agents and enable Extend Unlock.
- Unlock your phone, then tap Trusted places.
Set up your places:
- If you added Home or Work locations in Maps, tap the location name and turn it on if desired.
- To add a location, tap Add trusted place. Verify your current location to add it, or tap
, type the address to add, and tap Select this location.
Manually lock phone
To lock your phone when you're in a trusted place, on the lock screen, tap 
. The phone stays locked until the next time you manually unlock it.
Remove trusted places
- Go to Settings.
- Tap Security & privacy > More security & privacy > Extend Unlock.
- Unlock your phone, then tap Trusted places.
Remove the location from your trusted places:
- For your Home or Work locations in Maps, tap the location name to toggle it off. To remove the address entirely, you must remove it in Maps.
- For custom places you added, tap the location name, then tap
.