Apple Quietly Added New Passcode Requirement for Touch ID

[gnasher729]

Exactly this.

I've never set up a password on my phone because:

A) I'm not doing anything wrong. Go ahead and waste your time looking through my phone.

B) I don't keep anything important on my phone.

If I steal your phone, I'll rent it out to people who need to make expensive long distance calls. The calls all go onto your bill. Someone with family living in India or Newzealand will be only too happy to have your phone.
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This also forces me to sleep less than 8 hrs at night, or I will need to enter passcode after getting up.

Set an alarm for 4am
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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

Well, the difference is that _if_ someone finds a way around the "ten guesses" limit, then they still have a million passcodes to try out.
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Liked the movie analogy.

For people who feel like paranoia is the way to go, fine for them, but Apple isn't giving the rest of us the choice. It's either (to borrow another analogy) leave the front door unlocked all the time or have it lock behind you automatically whenever you go out to the mailbox. The fingerprint scan is plenty secure against theft. The only reason to add frequent passcode entry over the choice of the user is, essentially, to make a political statement.

The passcode helps turning your iPhone into a brick when someone steals it. The value of a stolen iPhone is lowered an awful lot by using a passcode. But how does that protect _me_? It protects me if _everyone_ uses a passcode, so no stolen iPhone is worth anything, so thieves stop stealing iPhones. If only half the iPhones have a passcode, thieves will continue stealing them, and if they steal my iPhone with a passcode, they throw it away and steal another one.

 

[Aetles]

I've never set up a password on my phone because:

A) I'm not doing anything wrong. Go ahead and waste your time looking through my phone.

B) I don't keep anything important on my phone.

C) I have never heard of social engineering.

 

[Shirasaki]

If I steal your phone, I'll rent it out to people who need to make expensive long distance calls. The calls all go onto your bill. Someone with family living in India or Newzealand will be only too happy to have your phone.
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Set an alarm for 4am
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Well, the difference is that _if_ someone finds a way around the "ten guesses" limit, then they still have a million passcodes to try out.
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The passcode helps turning your iPhone into a brick when someone steals it. The value of a stolen iPhone is lowered an awful lot by using a passcode. But how does that protect _me_? It protects me if _everyone_ uses a passcode, so no stolen iPhone is worth anything, so thieves stop stealing iPhones. If only half the iPhones have a passcode, thieves will continue stealing them, and if they steal my iPhone with a passcode, they throw it away and steal another one.

Don't forget DFU mode and restore. They can use it to erase passcode and set up as a new.
And setting alarm at 4am is too early! Although I Start sleeping at 4am recently actually...

 

[ardchoille50]

If I steal your phone, I'll rent it out to people who need to make expensive long distance calls. The calls all go onto your bill. Someone with family living in India or Newzealand will be only too happy to have your phone.

That doesn't work for all phones. I'm deaf and don't have the voice/calling capability on my account, so stealing my phone for this purpose wouldn't help.

 

[markgpearse]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but this morning and out-of-the-blue, Tim Cook made me change my simple 4 digit passcode with an 8 digit letter/number passcode.

 

[blasto2236]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but this morning and out-of-the-blue, Tim Cook made me change my simple 4 digit passcode with an 8 digit letter/number passcode.

Passcode change requirements can pop up for a lot of reasons. Most often, it's a requirement of your company email (Exchange email accounts can require a passcode change every so often, or stricter requirements) or any type of profile a company may have installed on your phone. It's not necessarily one of these two things, but those are the most common.