Homeowners are choosing smart locks over electronic locks time and time again—in fact, more than 12 million households have already made the switch. As digital technology advances and homeowners adapt ...

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One household item which can greatly improve your everyday living is the digital door lock. In recent years, demand for this smart home product has quickly grown. Aside from security and convenience, ...

Both smart locks and digital locks have the benefit of convenience over traditional mechanical locks. Replacing your conventional lock with a smart or digital one will mean you won’t need to carry a ...

These top-rated locks from August, Eufy, Kwikset, and Yale are excellent at resisting picking, drilling, and kick-ins. But there are some models to avoid. Consumer Reports uses a cordless drill in ...

Always misplacing your keys? With electronic locks more commonly available on the market today, all you’ll need is either your fingerprint or a password for access. We’ve rounded up five of our top ...

Resistance to kick-in as sold is how well the lock survived increasingly forceful impacts using the hardware it comes with. The Smonet Electronic Fingerprint ZNS-Y001 is part of the Door Locks test ...

Many of the deadbolt locks tested by Consumer Reports lack the level of protection you might want or expect. In our labs, a few well-placed kicks or a couple of minutes under assault from a cordless ...