Lock or Unlock Home Screen Layout
Dragging an app icon on your Realme home screen and watching your carefully arranged layout shift is a common frustration. Realme UI includes a home screen lock that freezes icon positions, but many users only find the setting after an update or a new app install has already rearranged everything. Locking the layout also blocks folder changes and widget movement, which matters if you rely on a custom setup.
Auto Brighten Screen for Face Recognition
If face unlock keeps failing in dim rooms or at night, your Realme phone might not be brightening the display enough to scan your face properly. The Auto brighten screen for face recognition feature controls this automatic boost, and when it is off or set the wrong way, unlocking in low light becomes unreliable.
Screen-off Unlock: Light or Firm Touch
If your Realme phone unlocks the moment you rest a finger on the power button, or refuses to unlock until you press it firmly, the screen-off unlock sensitivity is set the wrong way for how you hold your phone. This setting controls whether a light touch or a firm press on the fingerprint sensor in the power button wakes and unlocks the device.
Change Privacy Password Security Question
If you set up the privacy password on your Realme phone but can no longer remember the security question tied to it, you could get locked out of hidden apps and files. The security question acts as the backup recovery method for that password, so an outdated or forgotten answer becomes a real problem the moment you need it. Realme lets you update this question directly from the security settings without wiping your hidden data.
Rename a Fingerprint
On a Realme phone every fingerprint you enroll gets a generic label like Finger 1 or Finger 2 by default. Once you have three or four prints stored, that numbering makes it hard to remember which entry belongs to which finger or family member. Giving each print a proper name keeps your fingerprint list readable at a glance.
Stay on Lock Screen After Face Unlock
On Realme phones, pressing the power button often unlocks the device straight to the home screen as soon as your face is recognized, so the lock screen never actually shows up. That skips past notifications, widgets, and other lock screen info you might still want to glance at. Realme UI has a separate screen unlock setting that decides whether recognition unlocks the phone immediately or just wakes the display for a swipe.
Reset Advertising ID
If ads on your Realme phone still feel oddly specific even after you cleared your browser history, the tracking is happening through a device-level advertising ID, not your browser. This identifier links your app activity and search behavior across services until it gets reset. Resetting it breaks that link and starts a fresh, anonymous tracking profile.
Set Up Face Recognition
Typing in a PIN or pressing the fingerprint sensor every time you pick up your phone gets old fast. Realme phones let you unlock with your face instead, using the front camera to store your biometric data on the device. Before you turn it on, it helps to know how the scan works and what happens with screen brightness afterward.
Turn Secure Keyboard On or Off for Password Input
When you tap into a password field on your Realme phone, the keyboard sometimes switches to a plainer look and screenshots or screen recordings stop working. This is the secure keyboard for password input, and it can block password managers, glide typing, or screen-sharing apps that need to capture that area. If you have never seen this setting, a blacked-out keyboard during a support call or tutorial recording looks like a glitch rather than a security feature.
Turn Google Play Protect On or Off
If Realme keeps flagging safe apps as risky, or you want extra scanning before installing new software, Google Play Protect is the setting controlling this behavior. It runs in the background on every Realme UI phone, checking apps during and after download for known threats. Turning it off stops these automatic scans, which also removes the safety net against malicious sideloaded apps.
Add Trusted Places to Smart Lock
If your Realme phone locks itself the moment you sit down at your desk or walk through your front door, Smart Lock's trusted places feature is likely switched off. This function keeps the device unlocked at chosen locations, such as home or work, even when an automatic screen lock timer is active. Without it, you end up entering your PIN or pattern dozens of times a day in places you already trust.
Face Unlock Explained
Face recognition on Realme UI unlocks your phone by scanning your face with the front camera, so you skip typing a PIN or pressing a fingerprint sensor. It runs alongside your existing lock screen security and can fall back to a fingerprint or PIN when the camera cannot get a clear read. Knowing how the scan works and where its limits are helps you decide when it is the right unlock method for you.
Turn On or Off Usage & Diagnostics
Realme phones quietly send app usage and diagnostics data to Google in the background, starting right after setup. Aggregated versions of that data can also reach Google partners or app developers for evaluation. If you would rather keep that data on the device, the 'Usage & diagnostics' setting controls whether this collection stays active.
Lock Screen Wallpaper
If you pick a new photo as wallpaper on your Realme phone, it sometimes replaces the lock screen image too, even though you only wanted to update the home screen. This happens because the Wallpapers menu applies images to both screens unless you tell it otherwise. Realme UI lets you assign a separate picture, live wallpaper, or gallery photo just for the lock screen.
Activity & Tracking Controls
Activity and tracking controls on Realme phones cover the data your device and its apps collect about how you use them - from app usage patterns to location history and ad personalization signals. These settings decide who can see that data and how long it stays on your phone or in your Google account. Getting familiar with them helps you cut down on unwanted tracking without breaking apps you rely on.
Smart Lock: Trusted Places, Devices and On-Body Detection
Smart Lock keeps your Realme phone unlocked automatically once it recognizes a trusted place, a paired device, or that you are carrying it. It removes the repeated PIN or pattern entry when you are already in a familiar, low-risk situation. The feature sits on top of your regular screen lock and only relaxes it under conditions you choose yourself.
Delete Face Data
If Face Unlock keeps popping up even though you no longer want facial recognition active on your Realme phone, the scanned face model is still stored in the security settings. Removing it turns off Face Unlock completely and clears the saved biometric data, but the deletion has to be confirmed with your Pattern, PIN or Password. Without one of those backup unlock methods set up, the face data cannot be deleted at all.
Require Open Eyes for Face Unlock
If your Realme phone unlocks even when you are drowsy or your eyes are barely open, the built-in eye-check for Face Unlock is turned off. Realme UI can require fully open eyes before it accepts a face scan, adding a layer against spoofing with photos or a sleeping face. Glasses wearers sometimes report the opposite problem: valid unlock attempts get rejected.
Manually Check for a Security Update
If your Realme phone skips a security update or you dismissed the install notification without noticing, the patch stays uninstalled in the background. Automatic checks depend on your connection and battery settings, so a pending update can sit unnoticed for weeks. Running a manual check confirms whether a newer security patch is actually available.
Unlock Hidden Apps with Fingerprint
Hidden apps on your Realme phone usually ask for a PIN or password before they open, even if you already unlocked the phone with your fingerprint. That extra step gets annoying if you check a hidden app several times a day. The fix is a setting most people overlook inside the fingerprint options, not inside App Lock itself.
Add Emergency Information
If you collapse or end up in an accident, first responders have no way of knowing your blood type, allergies, or existing medical conditions. On a Realme phone this information can sit right on the lock screen, ready to view the moment someone taps the emergency call option.
Add Another Fingerprint
Only one finger enrolled means a wet thumb, a bandage, or an awkward grip angle can block Fingerprint unlock completely. Realme UI lets you store several fingerprints, so payments, App Lock and Private Safe keep working even when your usual finger fails to scan.
Turn On/Off Personalized Ads
Personalized ads on your Realme phone use your search queries and app activity to pick which promotions you see. Turning the option off does not reduce the number of ads themselves, just the targeting behind them. Many users expect fewer banners after opting out and are surprised when the same volume keeps showing up.
Turn On or Off Double Tap to Lock
Reaching for the power button every time you want to lock your Realme phone gets tiring fast, especially if the button sits awkwardly or wears out. Double tap to lock fixes that by letting two quick taps on an empty part of the home screen lock the display instantly. If you already use a password, PIN or pattern, that lock still applies automatically after the tap.