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From time to time, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to sign in to your Apple ID from an "unknown" device. When you do so, the company will ask you for confirmation on one of your devices or, if you do not have such a device available, with an activation code from an SMS. And just the SMS systemek, which Apple sends for such a purpose, will probably see changes.

The company or the engineers responsibleí behind WebKit, is developing a new standardized format for SMS messages with a one-time activation code that couldy use all companies in the world. When you get such a message you have to rewrite the code in the browser window, which would be fine, but even today some of the worse designed sites mohou have a problem with the functionality of this interface. For example, it happened to me on a certain website that when I switched from the browser to the received message on my mobile, the window for entering the code simply disappeared.

And just such ailments would thanks to the new standard that Apple is developing, it could be avoided. Newly, the browser on a modern device could automatically extract the necessary data from the received message, and you would not have to rewrite anything anywhere. The solution was even designed so that the code could read only the website for which the activation code was intended.

The message the user would receive would consisted of two parts. In the first part of the SMS would be located human readable text, for example "747723 is your verification code for apple.com". In the second part of the SMS would then be designed a code with special characters that would automatically entered into the browser: "@apple.com #747723". Interestingly, both Apple and Google have already started using this system. A statement from Mozilla is still awaited.

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Source: ZDNet

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