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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 201 points 7 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.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 94 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've always wanted a setting to create a lockdown key and an unlock key. So something like middle-finger to unlock but index-finger to force it into PIN/password only mode. So you can have some convenience of a quick unlock but if an authority figure asks or forces you to unlock it you can one-tap lock it down.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] png@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In GrapheneOS, a single wrong fingerprint disables fingerprint unlock until the password is entered.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not correct. It just says not recognized, and let's you try again. I just tested it. Do you have documentation that it should work the way you said and mine is faulty?

[–] png@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I misremembered, it's 5 times instead of 20: more secure fingerprint unlock

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