iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri... by mackrevinack on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:31AM (#26952722)

but what do you if you don't want it to unlock? like if you were in work and someone send you a nsfw message that you don't want your coworkers to see, or maybe you are in a car with other people etc etc. ...there's no way to stop that right?

at least with a fingerprint reader you can choose to glance at the lockscreen messages first before unlocking

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Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri... by culturestate on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:02AM (#26953279)

You can disable the attention-aware features if you want to, even independent of Face ID itself, and it obviously respects DND settings.

I keep notification contents hidden while the phone is locked anyway, so I'd need to authenticate before it shows me the message in either case.

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Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri... by asutekku on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:43AM (#26952799)

Just looking at the screen does not unlock the device as you still need to swipe up to close the lockscreen. Before that, it does exactly as you describe, shows a glance on the lockscreen.

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Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri... by culturestate on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:05AM (#26953297)

To clarify, it does unlock the phone - i.e. you are authenticated as you after you look at it - but you're right that it doesn't open the full message unless you tap on the notification.

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