Ray-Ban Meta: How to Lock Your Glasses

Quick summary: Device lock protects your Ray-Ban Meta glasses, so if someone else puts them on, they can’t make calls, send or hear your messages, or share your photos and videos until you unlock your phone.

Step by step

1. Open the Meta AI app and tap the glasses icon at the bottom right.
2. Pick your glasses and tap the gear to open settings.
3. Check for updates first and install any, in case you don’t have the feature yet.
4. Go back and scroll down to Device lock.
5. Read the notes at the bottom: after unlocking, you can use the locked features until you take the glasses off, and using auto lock may reduce battery life a bit.
6. Tap Turn on. Under Authentication methods, Phone unlock lets you unlock the glasses just by unlocking your phone.

What gets locked

After I took the glasses off and put them back on:

• Locked: calling (“Call David” said contacts are locked and to unlock my phone), sending messages, hearing messages you receive, and sharing photos and videos.
• Still works: asking Meta AI questions (“What time is it?”) and taking photos.

I kind of wish photos and AI questions were locked too, but your personal information is what matters most, and that’s protected. As soon as I unlocked my phone, everything worked again. You only need to unlock after the glasses have been taken off (or, I’d guess, disconnected).

Get them

• Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 at Best Buy
• Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer from Meta
• Ray-Ban Meta charging station on Amazon