As handy as Face ID is as a feature, it doesn’t work in the presence of COVID-19 face masks, which have become instrumental in slowing the pandemic. The mask, when in place, blocks the Face ID sensor from seeing your face, meaning you have to either remove the mask, type in your passcode, or disable […]
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Once again, it’s the beta software and its references that offer a hint as to some neat stuff to come. The iOS 13.4.5 beta, which was released on Tuesday to developers, features additional hints as to the new CarKey API, which can allow a user to lock, unlock, and start a car. The new code […]
Your iPhone or Apple Watch could become your car key in the relatively near future. A group of developers has just studied the first beta version of iOS 13.4, and noted references to a “CarKey” API, which will make it possible to use the iPhone and also the Apple Watch to unlock, lock, and start […]
The U.S. government may not actually need Apple’s help to break iPhone encryption, as the FBI appears to have done this on its own. According to a recent Forbes article, FBI investigators in Ohio recently used the GrayKey hardware box to unlock an iPhone 11 Pro Max. The iPhone belonged to Baris Ali Koch, who was […]
Once again, it’s Apple and the government trying to find a balance between security and privacy in the wake of a tragedy. In a letter sent late Monday to Apple’s general counsel Katherine Adams, the FBI has asked Apple to help unlock two iPhones that investigators believe were owned by Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who carried […]