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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 201 points 6 months ago (69 children)

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do you have to mash it? Or will pressing it normally work?

[–] teacup@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 6 months ago

The only thing I'll mash is that subscribe button

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de -3 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure Apple would replace the buttons with pressure sensors – not for user comfort but so that they are no longer replaceable with OEM parts and can be serialized. They did literally this with Macbook sleep sensors.

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