And if your movement is restricted, “Hey Siri, who am I?” will also trigger a lockout requiring a PIN.
Edit: for clarification - this will not lock your phone by itself. If your phone is locked (so on your lockscreen with the lock icon still there) it will trigger a lockout and won’t allow biometric authentication until your PIN has been entered.
Are you doing this with your lock screen in the ‘unlocked’ state or in the ‘locked’ state? If the lock screen is already unlocked, it doesn’t work (and wouldn’t matter, since whatever adversary you have already has access to your phone). Try it again with your phone locked and the screen off. If it still doesn’t work, report it as a bug to Apple. I can personally vouch for it working on a 6, 6S, 7 and X.
Oh I believe you. Do you have your ‘my card’/‘my info’ configured? By that I mean, if you scroll up in Contacts does it show your contact card at the top (and if you ask ‘who am I, does Siri pull up this card)?
Aha! My name DOES show up at the top of my contact but once I click into it it's really some kind of a "shadow contact" or placeholder. It seems it was guessing a bunch of info about me but there wasn't really a record tied to it. I "edited" it, added some basic info (phone number and email), hit save and now the feature works as you described. Thank you!
Probably best not to disable the “Require Attention” option for facial recognition - then if your eyes are closed or not focused on the phone, it won’t unlock.
That's what I thought. Just like making sure the phone doesn't connect to the internet so it can't be remotely wiped. I don't own an iPhone so I might be wrong but can't the cop just tape over the camera/sensor?
Unlike the courts, an abusive spouse or employer won't presume innocence. They will take your initial refusal to insert PIN/password as proof of guilt and coerce you into doing so.
How do they cope against a video of you, like if I pretend to take a selfie but video instead, oh whoops .. but then I have a video to use to unlock your phone?
Or police could use the mugshot process to get a video?
To clarify: if someone is at the point where their SO is snooping around their phone at night, there is a potentially dangerous power imbalance in the relationship. Step one is not "leave". That may not be possible without catastrophic effect in some cases (think stalking, violence, blackmail).
Rather, step one is to prevent the toxic SO from gaining more power over you. (Step two is to reduce their power.) Technology that automatically prevents them from snooping on your digital life is a great way to do this.
(And yes, it is best if the tech is a given. If a toxic partner notices that you are taking actions to keep them at bay, that can be dangerous too. E.g. this is why Facebook broadcasting idle time to everyone in your network is terrible for those with stalkers. The implementors of that feature should be ashamed.)
It's somewhat easier to just browse in Firefox's private mode all the time with trakingprotection enabled and no 3rd party cookies. Nothing is shared with the tracking networks and any cookie set by the site itself is deleted at the end of the session. As for the consent and GDPR annoyances themselves, they can be killed easily with uBlock (along with the ads etc.).
Welcome to the smooth, no-tracking surfing experience of circa 2003.
Me too but has anyone actually been fined for this sort of thing yet? I tried to report one site to the UK ICO and didn't even get an automated email reply.
Seems like the law exists but there's nobody to enforce it.
Though the iPhone X series uses a special chip to store the face I never read it doesn't site the face of others. None of this really matters though as any "authority" looking at your phone has the power to force you to unlock it against your will.
New Zealand, for example, recently instituted a $5000 maximum fine for individuals at airports who are unwilling to unlock their phones even asked by "officials".
Both the US and NZ, along with several other countries, are part of the same surveilance ring. So if you think not looking at your phone matters in the slightest it doesn't. Not at all.
Seems like it would be best to totally wipe all of your devices before crossing a boarder and restore from backup over the internet when you are over it.
What are they going to do, demand a replacement with real data?
It is the phone you're traveling with. The point is supposed to be about bringing illegal stuff into the country. A blank phone contains none. If they want to explain that they need fed juicy private stuff for admission, well, I'd love to hear all the details about that.
I imagine they're going to view you with suspicion and so detain you for [further] interview; probably add you to a watch list?
A completely blank phone suggests you're naively hiding something: like carrying an empty box with an obvious fake bottom. Enticing stuff for a TLA agent I imagine.
> A completely blank phone suggests you're naively hiding something
I'd see that more as "proudly refusing to play along", but interpretations of course will differ. I'm willing to add little fuck-yous in the notes and pics, if that helps interpretation.
Push back, people. Meekly bending over because you don't want to be inconvenienced is quite literally asking for more.
If it comes to the point where they're wanting to look at your devices, their response to stock devices with no data will be to confiscate your device, detain you, and/or turn you away from crossing the border.
I personally have a “burner” phone I take when traveling internationally (usually an unlocked older iPhone). If it’s stolen / seized I don’t really care.
Thats just comically funny. "Hey cellmate, I need you to punch my face in." "You sure dude?" "Yeah, they are gonna make me unlock my phone today...gotta make it fail!"
On iPhone X, you can hold the power button and volume up for 5 seconds and it will lock the phone, disable Face ID, and force entering your passcode to unlock.
You can also tap the power button five times in a row, which brings up the emergency screen (Power Off, Medical ID, SOS call), but also disables face recognition until a pin unlock has happened.
The idea being that you are able to disable the biometric stuff before you expect to encounter a situation involving overreaching law enforcement. Hitting the power button 5 times in your pocket is easy enough.
Additionally TouchID is disabled after several hours of the device being unlocked. I presume FaceID is no different. So if you refuse to comply and they have to get a court order then the time limit may be reached.
You can even have the device wipe itself after 10 failed attempts to unlock it.
If you’re doing something illegal, I’d assume you wouldn’t use Face ID because of this exact scenario, but from what I’ve seen, most criminals are dumb.
Face id and finger print id, unless used in addition to, not instead of, a passcode, are convenience features, not security features. Removing the "something you know" part of digital security makes anything else just shy of useless. Apple should remove the options or start using honest terminology in the configuration steps if they actually care about security.
