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Apple Quietly Added New Passcode Requirement for Touch ID
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If with 'pretty much all the time' you mean once per week, then you are correct.
Should be user selectable.
[doublepost=1463756900][/doublepost]I'ld like to see actions specifiable by finger. Example: Unlock, lock, wipe, call spouse or start playing Eric Clapton Music.
While I also do nothing wrong, I do keep information on my phone that I don't want anybody finding. Kids schedules for things, geotagged pictures of my kids. realtime information of where my wife is, and when my kids are old enough for phones I'll have there gps location as well.
Just because you don't do anything wrong doesn't mean you don't have information that you don't want people having.
Yes, but not a usable option for those of us who use control panel on the iPhones lock screen. I do have it disabled on my iPad tho.
Wait, I don't want this. I bought a phone with touch ID specifically to not have to use passcodes.
That's fine, but give me the option to bypass it. The scanner is pointless if you still need a password.
You won't have to use it in relation to this aside from maybe once a week at most, of that.
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Pointless if once in a rare while you need to use a password? Seems like useless has a fairly different definition there.
How hard is it to forget day and month of your birth?It also serves to keep us reminded of the passcode.
Ten guesses is all they get before my iPhone erases it's memory.
If I've got that set to erase I can't see why 6-digits would be better?
(Other than watching me type the password, it's easier to see 4 digits than 6)
Gary
I want the option to never use a password, period. Without that, they might as well ask me to type a password every time. It's stupid to have it there and not have the option to use only the scanner. Someone is far more likely to steal my password than my fingerprint anyway.
That's fine, but that doesn't make it useless the way it is. Saying that it does is simply rhetorical hyperbole.
Yeah, 8 hours is a bit short. I'm NOT one of those people who clutch my iPhone 24/7. There will be part of the day when a smartphone is not right in front of me. There are several hours in the day when I'm off the grid. So I can think of "inconvenient circumstances" when I have not used my iPhone in the past 8 hours, and THEN suddenly I need to use the convenience of TouchID, like an instant ApplePay purchase at Starbucks or Panera….. and suddenly the phone tells me that TouchID is not aceptable, please enter your password.
Make it (TouchID) once-every-24 hours and I'm happy.
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How hard is it to forget day and month of your birth?
But what if I allowed Siri to choose my Password? Do you know how hard it is to remember 7g6fH-02plf-1330-Lee3t?
The one where you said this
"Is the implementation based on iOS version or sort of a across the based push to device? I ask because I was asked this morning for my passcode and the phone definitely didnt powercycle overnight..."
Yeah I did read it. I Still think you didn't read the article
Yeah, 8 hours is a bit short. I'm NOT one of those people who clutch my iPhone 24/7. There will be part of the day when a smartphone is not right in front of me. There are several hours in the day when I'm off the grid. So I can think of "inconvenient circumstances" when I have not used my iPhone in the past 8 hours, and THEN suddenly I need to use the convenience of TouchID, like an instant ApplePay purchase at Starbucks or Panera….. and suddenly the phone tells me that TouchID is not aceptable, please enter your password.
Make it (TouchID) once-every-24 hours and I'm happy.
6 days since the last passcode entry AND 8 hours once the last unlock. That's about once a week.
Reading comprehension... Sheesh.
8 hours after at least 6 days have passed since the last use of the passcode. So about once a week at most. It's in the article and has been pointed out repeatedly (and I do mean repeatedly) all over the thread.Yeah, 8 hours is a bit short. I'm NOT one of those people who clutch my iPhone 24/7. There will be part of the day when a smartphone is not right in front of me. There are several hours in the day when I'm off the grid. So I can think of "inconvenient circumstances" when I have not used my iPhone in the past 8 hours, and THEN suddenly I need to use the convenience of TouchID, like an instant ApplePay purchase at Starbucks or Panera….. and suddenly the phone tells me that TouchID is not aceptable, please enter your password.
Make it (TouchID) once-every-24 hours and I'm happy.
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But what if I allowed Siri to choose my Password? Do you know how hard it is to remember 7g6fH-02plf-1330-Lee3t?
Yep, it just hit me today. Had to enter my passcode in the morning, and I checked my phone uptime and it was about 6.5 days.
Oh well, not a huge deal. But it does explain the random passcode prompts that didn't seem to make any sense.
Oh well, not a huge deal. But it does explain the random passcode prompts that didn't seem to make any sense.
Well you certainly can think what you like. The less douche-y response would be to answer the question but I guess not.
The question is answered in the article. Every iOS device with iOS 9 and Touch ID now has this feature. So why are u asking if it has something to do with push?
Yeah, 8 hours is a bit short. I'm NOT one of those people who clutch my iPhone 24/7. There will be part of the day when a smartphone is not right in front of me. There are several hours in the day when I'm off the grid. So I can think of "inconvenient circumstances" when I have not used my iPhone in the past 8 hours, and THEN suddenly I need to use the convenience of TouchID, like an instant ApplePay purchase at Starbucks or Panera….. and suddenly the phone tells me that TouchID is not aceptable, please enter your password.
Make it (TouchID) once-every-24 hours and I'm happy.
So you're good with once per week, then? Because that's what this scenario is.
If you haven't unlocked your phone with the passcode in more than *6 days*
AND you haven't unlocked your phone with TouchID in more than 8 hours.
During those initial 6 days, you will be able to unlock your phone using Touch ID, regardless of how long it has sat untouched (unless you fall afoul of the 48-hours without unlock trigger).
On the 7th day, after your phone has sat unused for more than 8 hours, you will be required to use your password (unless you've used your password, instead of Touch ID, at some point within the prior 6 days).