Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S in the much-hyped media event. Almost every feature of the iPhone 5S was pre-leaked – including the most famous – iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint technology. As soon as the biometric security was endorsed by Apple; it went main stream. Many people around the world had one major question in their mind. If a thief cuts your finger, can they unlock your iPhone 5S using that? Check out below to find the answer.
This question might have come across many people’s mind – it did on mine at least. What would happen if a thief tries to cut your finger off and use it to unlock the iPhone 5S? Hypothetically – the thief should be able to unlock the iPhone 5S using the severed finger. But the reality is far from it.
Apple during the media event and in other videos mentioned that the unlocking that is done by the iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint sensor is quite advance, in the sense that it uses the latest methods and techniques to find ways to unlock the iPhone.
Validity Sensors, a California-based fingerprint company mentioned that the iPhone 5S Touch ID sensor requires a live finger to be placed on it. The sensor recognizes only live fingers because the RF capacitive sensor uses radio frequency scanning to detect the sub-epidermal layers of your skin, a dynamic that requires the owner of the finger to be alive and attached to the finger being used.
In more simply words – your fingers are safe.
Well, this is now going to remove all those misconceptions people had in mind regarding the iPhone 5S fingerprint technology. And obviously about those finger-severed iPhone 5S memes that are going viral on Facebook and Twitter.
This question might have come across many people’s mind – it did on mine at least. What would happen if a thief tries to cut your finger off and use it to unlock the iPhone 5S? Hypothetically – the thief should be able to unlock the iPhone 5S using the severed finger. But the reality is far from it.
Apple during the media event and in other videos mentioned that the unlocking that is done by the iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint sensor is quite advance, in the sense that it uses the latest methods and techniques to find ways to unlock the iPhone.
Validity Sensors, a California-based fingerprint company mentioned that the iPhone 5S Touch ID sensor requires a live finger to be placed on it. The sensor recognizes only live fingers because the RF capacitive sensor uses radio frequency scanning to detect the sub-epidermal layers of your skin, a dynamic that requires the owner of the finger to be alive and attached to the finger being used.
In more simply words – your fingers are safe.
Well, this is now going to remove all those misconceptions people had in mind regarding the iPhone 5S fingerprint technology. And obviously about those finger-severed iPhone 5S memes that are going viral on Facebook and Twitter.
... no one will try to cut the finger anyways as thieves have guns and not knives and they will threaten to kill you(which they do anyways much of the time) if you do not unlock the phone... It will be really moronic to think that a thief will take his time to cut off your finger rather than threating to kill you to unlock it yourself...
