On: New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

[astrange]

If you're outside the house that's less secure, because a security camera or a shoulder surfer can see your PIN.

[layman51 → astrange]

Agreed. I don’t understand how someone would be careful to not use biometrics and yet use a six digit passcode instead of an alphanumeric password.

[curious_ralts → astrange]

Graphene has a feature exactly for this which shows a shuffled unlock screen

[saagarjha → curious_ralts]

This sounds like an excellent way to make it even easier for people to watch you enter your PIN.

[cubesnooper → saagarjha]

Once you’ve had the PIN scramble turned on for a while, it becomes second nature. I enter my GrapheneOS scrambled PIN about as quickly as the unscrambled PIN on my non‐GrapheneOS work phone. But it’s more of a defense against figuring out my PIN from the finger marks on my screen.

In environments where shoulder surfing is a concern, I prefer to use the multiple profiles feature: log out of my main profile (which is actually a secondary profile) to completely evict its keys from memory, and switch to a burner secondary profile containing no personal data, which unlocks with my fingerprint for convenience.

[chatmasta → cubesnooper]

Second nature or not, I’m not sure how this protects you against the security camera watching you enter the passcode. I guess you’re hoping it can’t read the digit on each key?

[saagarjha → cubesnooper]

I am curious what you do with a phone that has no personal data beyond, like, call people whose number you have memorized and maybe look something up