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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by WirelessGigabit on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:54PM (#34408942)
Well, remember the old days where we had fingerprints on iPhones? I remember. My thumb was registered on my wife's phone and hers on mine. Never an issue with sharing a phone.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by limitedsupply on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:49PM (#34409271)
You still had a pin code, in addition to the fingerprint. It's an identical situation.
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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by egberts1 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:20AM (#34413427)
iOS supports both fingerprinting AND inputting of a PIN ... in iOS?

Did not know that. Then again, not sure how we can do that ... in iOS.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7647773

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by egberts1 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:22AM (#34413474)
Seems like only at iOS power up, one cannot do both fingerprint and PIN.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7647773?answerId=305700...

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by fsckboy on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:36PM (#34449306)
same with facial recognition, isn't it? Don't you have to put in the PIN every now and then? I have an iPhone but I don't use facial.
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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by egberts1 on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:02PM (#34459897)
One would like to think that you can maximize security of your phone by using both:

- what you have, and

- what you know

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