Is my key-in-knob out of alignment?

[WOT]

A year or two back, I locked myself out of my home. I went outside to get mail and out of habit, I locked the knob from inside, then closed the door behind me without carrying my key.

When I called a locksmith, he used a thin metal card into the latch area instead of futzing with the cylinder. The latch has a small side pin that rests on the jamb plate so the latch can't be pushed in with the door closed.

If the card job opened the door, does it mean my jamb plate is out of alignment or did his technique somehow bypass the interlock?

[UWSDWF]

sounds out of line unless he spreaded your frame

[WOT]

sounds out of line unless he spreaded your frame

His tool looked like a putty knife made of something thin and flexible enough to go under the molding. No visible marks or distortion afterward.

I tried pulling on the latch from the inside with a U shaped stiff wire from inside, but I can't seem to get the latch to retract all the way, so I'm not sure how the latch retracted when he did it.

[zeke79]

Bypass is not for discussion in the open forums. I would say that if you shut your door with normal force and the latch guard falls into the strike then yes, you need to reposition your strike plate.