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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by cmiller1 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:17PM (#11171384)
Is it only five fails on TouchID to delete data? I don't have the option to delete the data enabled on my iPhone... but it often takes more than five tries to just get it to work on my finger that is legitimately registered in touchID.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by praseodym on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:21PM (#11171421)
After five failures the you cannot use Touch ID to unlock and will instead need the passcode to access the phone again. This means that any approach to fooling the fingerprint reader will need to be done within five tries.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by tptacek on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:20PM (#11171413)
No, it's five fails before Touch ID stops working until after a passcode is entered again.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by r00fus on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:44PM (#11171542)
You should overtrain your TouchID: http://www.imore.com/touch-id-not-working-you-heres-fix
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