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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone(gizmodo.com)

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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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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.

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FederatedSaint@lemmy.world
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Do you have to mash it? Or will pressing it normally work?

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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Pretty sure Apple would replace the buttons with pressure sensors – not for user comfort but so that they are no longer replaceable with OEM parts and can be serialized. They did literally this with Macbook sleep sensors.

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