Apple is changing and revamping technology to be useful for users every day, making things easier for the heavy iPhone carriers as well. Following the iPhone 5s release last September that featured a thumb scanner, many thought it wasn’t enough for privacy, as videos on YouTube revealed how to bypass the newly equipped scanner.
With another tech jump into the right path, it describes a system for using facial recognition and detection on a mobile or desktop computing device. The Android unlock option was something similar to this, which has been criticized before for its fallibility. Most importantly, it protects your phone in a lock screen from trespassers; but also determines how much information is shared on the lock screen for a user’s device. When the user is receiving a call and their iPhone recognizes them (determined by a number of factors, including skin tone, vectors, feature distance and size, etc.), it’ll display caller ID and information from the user’s contacts app.
If it’s not someone the phone contacts that isn’t listed as a user of the device, it’ll block all the data. This goes for personal emails, and messages among other things; so it’s safe to say you’re personal identity is covered. Check back with us for more details on Apple Inc.
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