India, March 25 -- If you own a Pixel 9 series or any other recent Pixel device (or plan on buying the latest Pixel 9a), you would know that most Pixels these days come with in-display fingerprint scanners. However, in order to unlock them, your screen needs to be on. This requirement creates a minor inconvenience because, unless you activate the screen, the fingerprint scanner area does not get illuminated. This has been the case since the Pixel 6 series when Google first introduced in-display fingerprint scanners. But now, this is all set to change with Android 16, as reported by Android Authority.

Notably, Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones have had this feature for multiple generations now, and you need not have the screen on to unlock...