My initial reaction was that you are being New York paranoid. It is just as likely that a mugger could wack a blind person on the head, and put their finger on the device to unlock it if it has the home button. I've never heard of either thing happening anywhere. And, good luck to the thief who knows nothing about VoiceOver doing anything with the phone. Which leads me to my personal approach. The screen curtain is always on unless I need a sighted person's help, or want to show them something. So, again, good luck to the person who could use face ID to unlock my phone only to find a blank screen and something jabbering at them. Also, if you are holding your phone out in front of you, rather than wearing it in a harness for orientation or directions, you are putting yourself more at risk.
Richard, USA. “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin My web site: https://www.turner42.com > On Nov 16, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote: > > Often I hear stories in the news of people who are mugged and their phones > stolen. If someone's phone is stolen, what's to prevent the mugger from > snatching the phone, holding the phone up to their face, and unlocking it > with Face ID, then taking off and disappearing with an unlocked phone and > access to all the information contained therein? If a visually impaired > person loses their phone, this is not an unlikely scenario as the mugger can > take the device and just wait around and follow the visually impaired person > without them knowing it, then, when the time is right, whip out the phone and > get it unlocked without the owner ever even knowing it happened. Might it not > be a bad idea to disable unlocking with Face ID? Or am I just being New York > paranoid? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/fb256919-01d4-0f51-97ec-7b392e036ff8%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/6070D13E-0602-4F61-BFBD-54A9DADDE291%40comcast.net.
