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Mar 07

A simple iPhone question...

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Like anyone who cares about security, I've set a passcode lock on my iPhone. However, it's a severe pain in the ass to have to type it in all the time (say, when I'm on a plane reading and want to regularly consult they dictionary (Wordbook)). So, I've set a few-minute delay on the passcode lock such that it doesn't activate immediately.

Here's a use-case and a question: In the above airplane example, what if I need to get up to use the bathroom and want to leave my phone at my seat/in my bag? I'd like in this case, instead of the passcode lock delay, to be able to tell the phone to turn on the passcode lock immediately. How do I do this?

This seems so simple but I can't find a way and it might just not be possible outside of simply changing the lock delay to immediate in Settings (which is another pain in the ass to fiddle with just to get up to use the bathroom... I'd just take my phone with me in this case). And, yes, I do realize that a passcode lock probably want thwart a determined adversary that gets my phone for a few minutes, but still.

Tags: fixes, hacks, iphone, lock, passcode, security

6 comments

  1. § Dan Wallach Email said on : 03/07/09 @ 12:21
    A far more likely threat is that somebody just flat-out steals your iPhone. Pick it up and take it with you.
  2. § EKR Email said on : 03/07/09 @ 16:19
    I must not care about security because I don't have a lock on my iPhone. I'm trying to figure out what the convincinh argument for doing it is.
  3. § joe® Email said on : 03/07/09 @ 16:23
    Well, I'm not sure about a "convincinh" argument but I have apps, like the mint.com app, that display pretty seriously sensitive information without an app-level lock.
  4. § Chris Email said on : 06/11/09 @ 15:22
    I ran across this when I was looking around for some of the work you did on post election audits. You can turn the phone off when you get up. You have to deal with the fun wait for reboot when you're back, but it will always prompt for the passcode on boot.
  5. § Debra Abinanti Email said on : 09/15/09 @ 20:04
    On the calculator where is the percent sign?
    I'm always doing a percentage of figures I don't know how it done on Iphone.
    Debra
  6. § joe® Email said on : 09/15/09 @ 20:06
    well, the divide sign is there... so just divide things by 100, yo.
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