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[taneq]

Does TouchID have any protections against your finger unlocking your phone post-mortem?

[toomuchtodo → taneq]

No, although I'd love to see a HealthKit app that uses your Apple Watch as a dead man's switch, and disables Touch ID or powers the phone off in the event the watch is removed or your pulse is no longer detected.

[mahyarm → toomuchtodo]

That wouldn't work well with loose wrists and other similar edge cases.

[jedberg → mahyarm]

Then those people could turn it off. But it would be a nice option.

[Crito → toomuchtodo]

Without a wristprint for the watch to read, what prevents somebody else from wearing it?

The pulse and skin conductivity might change, but are either of those reliable enough metrics for such an application?

[X-Istence → Crito]

If you take the watch off, it automatically locks. I wouldn't mind it also automatically locking my phone and requiring a passcode instead of TouchID.

There is a VERY limited amount of time in which you can take the watch off and switch to another wrist (like milliseconds, you have to practically be a magician to switch wrists (which I do throughout the day)).

Apple has the watch, they could use it to beef up security for those that want it.