Once again I'm am thinking of jumping back to iPhone after a long stint with Android.
I saw some news a few days ago about thieves targeting iPhone users, figuring out their unlock codes, stealing their phones and then somehow having access to pretty much everything including banking. I assume they had keychain remember their banking app passcodes? Although I read some comments saying this was more along the lines of social engineering, it seems like remembering what someone typed into their phone and then stealing it isn't exactly hard. So I'm understandably concerned.
Thinking about how this works on Android, if someone had my phone and knew my unlock code then the it would be a lot harder to drain my bank accounts. Each banking app requires it's own passcode or to use the fingerprint sensor (which can't be bypassed to use the phone's unlock code). Furthermore I don't even recall Google ever asking if I wanted to save any of my banking app passcodes, I guess Google doesn't allow itself to remember banking app passwords?
Just to make sure, in the case of iOS, I CAN choose for keychain not to remember the passwords to my banking apps, is that correct? And would that mean I wouldn't suffer the same fate as some of those unfortunate ones I saw in the news?
Thanks.
I saw some news a few days ago about thieves targeting iPhone users, figuring out their unlock codes, stealing their phones and then somehow having access to pretty much everything including banking. I assume they had keychain remember their banking app passcodes? Although I read some comments saying this was more along the lines of social engineering, it seems like remembering what someone typed into their phone and then stealing it isn't exactly hard. So I'm understandably concerned.
Thinking about how this works on Android, if someone had my phone and knew my unlock code then the it would be a lot harder to drain my bank accounts. Each banking app requires it's own passcode or to use the fingerprint sensor (which can't be bypassed to use the phone's unlock code). Furthermore I don't even recall Google ever asking if I wanted to save any of my banking app passcodes, I guess Google doesn't allow itself to remember banking app passwords?
Just to make sure, in the case of iOS, I CAN choose for keychain not to remember the passwords to my banking apps, is that correct? And would that mean I wouldn't suffer the same fate as some of those unfortunate ones I saw in the news?
Thanks.