• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        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.