<story><title>iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-disable-emergency-services-lock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>On 08&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;17 I was kidnapped at gun point and at one point forced to turn over my iPhone and on two occasions had to provide the gunman my passcode.&lt;p&gt;I learned about tapping the power button 5x&amp;#x27;s but still don&amp;#x27;t know what would have occurred and if such a function would have endangered by life (I believe it triggers a emergency services call, but that could have tipped off the gunman if he heard an voice asking &amp;quot;911, what&amp;#x27;s your emergency?&amp;quot; From the phone).  So I believe the following would have been useful: an alternate passcode that would have unknowingly triggered my location and activated the mic to emergency services without the gunman being aware.</text></comment>
<story><title>iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-disable-emergency-services-lock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; The new iOS 11 feature is even more relevant when you consider that Apple is expected to introduce face unlocking with the next iPhone.&lt;p&gt;I read that as &amp;quot;fake unlocking&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Which would be a really cool option: a cop or TSA tries to unlock your phone but gets instead a sandboxed environment which makes them think they actually unlocked the phone.</text></comment>