Vratislav Holub On the TikTok social network, we can find a lot of different content - from dances, to shots of animals, to all kinds of tips and tricks. This is precisely why we can quite often come across various tricks related to iPhone phones, i.e. with the iOS operating system. It has gained solid popularity relatively recently TikTok, which shows how to unlock your iPhone using just your voice. In this way, you can do without authentication via Face/Touch ID, or without writing a code.
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Pavel Jelic At first glance, it looks pretty good. You pick up your iPhone, say something like “Open” and your device will unlock itself immediately. On the other hand, what good is something like that anyway? We can still unlock the phone practically immediately with the aforementioned Face/Touch ID biometric authentication, without having to say anything at all.
How to unlock iPhone by voice
Before we get to the important part, let's quickly show how the mentioned TikTok trend actually works, or how it is possible to unlock the iPhone through a single voice command. In practice it is quite simple. Just go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice control and activate the voice control function at the very top. After that, you have to click on the option Customize commands and select at the top Create a new command. Now we're getting to the finish line. All you have to do is set a phrase and tap Actions > Start custom gesture and tap the display exactly as if you wanted to enter your code.
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Thanks to this, all you have to do is say a specific phrase and the gesture will be played automatically, thus unlocking the phone itself. In addition, the creators of these TikTok videos themselves argue for different reasons. According to them, something like this comes in handy, for example, in a situation where you have a face mask and you need to remove it or enter the appropriate code to unlock your phone.
Why you should never do it
In reality, however, this is not a very good idea and should definitely be avoided. This is a security risk. Smartphones, both iOS and Android, rely on passcode locks and biometric authentication for a reason. Of course, it is about the safety not only of the device itself, but above all of its user. However, if we try to bypass the mentioned security in this way, we expose ourselves to risk and remove some form of security from the device. After that, anyone can pick up an iPhone, say a specific phrase, and get almost full access to it.
In the same way, this gadget is completely useless - regardless of whether you have a mask on or not. Apple has incorporated new functions into the iOS 15.4 operating system, thanks to which the Face ID technology reliably recognizes its user even when he is wearing a face mask.
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