Do you use an password on your iPhone? I do but I do not have a 5s I type in the password every time. Also do you have a delay on your password?
Where's the Touch ID option? I guess I'm each time, but without it I had a two letter password delayed to 1 hour, minimum security.
iPhone 5. Nope. Never have. My phone rarely, if ever, leaves my body or right in front of me. Am I a rare case? I've personally never understood the need for one.
Your phone never does leave your body but unfortunately there are people who will take your phone from your hands and run. It's called apple picking. Because I don't want to be walking somewhere in public and have some run past taking my phone I have the password set to every time that way there's little chance of my phone getting messed up in any way. Who knows what someone like that would do change my settings delete stuff. This will give me the time to get on find my iPhone and wipe it clean then have the plolice go after his gps cordites that they won't be able to turn off because it's locked.
But if they grab it from your hands, typically while you are using it, it would be unlocked at that point, so quite a bit of the protection a password/passcode would typically provide wouldn't really apply in an instance like that.Your phone never does leave your body but unfortunately there are people who will take your phone from your hands and run. It's called apple picking. Because I don't want to be walking somewhere in public and have some run past taking my phone I have the password set to every time that way there's little chance of my phone getting messed up in any way. Who knows what someone like that would do change my settings delete stuff. This will give me the time to get on find my iPhone and wipe it clean then have the plolice go after his gps cordites that they won't be able to turn off because it's locked.
But if they grab it from your hands, typically while you are using it, it would be unlocked at that point, so quite a bit of the protection a password/passcode would typically provide wouldn't really apply in an instance like that.
iPhone 5. Nope. Never have. My phone rarely, if ever, leaves my body or right in front of me. Am I a rare case? I've personally never understood the need for one.
But if they grab it from your hands, typically while you are using it, it would be unlocked at that point, so quite a bit of the protection a password/passcode would typically provide wouldn't really apply in an instance like that.
They could keep the screen on long enough to go into settings and change auto-lock to never so that it would stay on and unlocked long enough for them to get somewhere to actually spend some more time with it to pull data off the phone or access some apps or something like that.I wouldn't say rare. I hate using a password but I've been mugged twice so I just deal with it now. Worth the peace of mind.
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What would they do though? Run down the street trying to ascertain passwords for banking apps and posting on your Facebook?
Typically they will turn it off. Then the password is activated restarting the phone later on to mess with it.
Touch ID is a password isn't it?
They could keep the screen on long enough to go into settings and change auto-lock to never so that it would stay on and unlocked long enough for them to get somewhere to actually spend some more time with it to pull data off the phone or access some apps or something like that.
Most of the stealing is of course just to sell the phone or parts, but if the phone is already on and those who are stealing are smarter than typical thieves, can certainly browse around the phone to gain more information and perhaps steal some passwords and accounts and other stuff.