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hey everyone Jason Cipriani here a CNN how to a contributor today we're going to cover how to unlock your Samsung Galaxy Nexus using the new face unlock feature that's brand new in Android 4.0 in order to set it up we'll need to go into the Settings app which you can access through the shortcut here in your notification tray and then we'll scroll down to security tap on screen unlock and then in face unlock go ahead and tap on set it up and then continue and what you'll see here is a portrait of what your face the area of your face needs to be placed into in order to set this up as you set it up these little dots will quit blinking and once it makes its way all the way around it'll turn green and let you know that setup is complete so I'm gonna go ahead and do that now as you can see it says my face has been captured I'll go ahead and hit continue and then it's gonna run down if first whatever reason maybe you're not smiling the right way or you are wearing glasses instead of contacts that day and it can't recognize your face you can't set up a backup unlock method and here you're given the option of a pattern or a pin so just for demonstration purposes we'll just set up a quick pin and we'll confirm it again the easiest pin in the world and then you're all done that's all there is to setting up face on lock now going forward if you want to unlock your phone you you press the power button hold the phone up let it recognize your face and your phone will automatically unlock for you yes it's a bit gimmicky may win you a few bets in a bar or with some friends but there it is face unlock feature on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus make sure to join us over at how to see Netcom you