Prevent Problems with your iPhone 6 Fingerprint Scanner
Edited by Grimm, Zack, Eng, Angela Greer
You're watching VisiHow. Today, we're going to teach you some security tips for your iPhone 6, concerning the touch fingerprint ID.
Steps
- 1To start with, let's give a quick press to the Lock button on the right side of the phone here.
- 2If you're entering in a pin, then you tap it, and it automatically enters you into the phone. Otherwise, you just press your thumb down here like I'm doing, and it automatically logs you in.Then you can either press your fingerprint into the touch sensor here at the bottom, or you can swipe across the screen and enter your pin.
- 3So Tap on Settings just one time.Once you're logged in, what we're going to do is click on the Settings option, which is this grey gear shift icon.
- 4Touch ID & Passcode is going to take us to the security area where we set-up our PIN. So click on that option.Then I'm going to scroll down, and I'm looking for the Touch ID & Passcode field.
- 5If you do not have your pass code or do not remember your pass-code, you cannot access this part of the phone. You will have to restore your phone. But in my case, I've set it to 1234, so I'll enter that.Once you enter the Touch ID & Passcode option, it's going to ask you for your pass-code.
- 6This is an option that is changed elsewhere in the phone - on the timer for when you're locking your phone. As you can see here, I am unable to change or update that because I have it set elsewhere. We'll discuss that a little later.I have Require Passcode immediately set.
- 7I can tap that if I want to enable erasing of data, but I'm going to cancel as I do not want to do that because I'm going to be recording some other videos on how to correct phone problems.I do not have Erase Data turned on.
- 8However, what we're going to do here is discuss how you can improve the speed and security of your phone.
- 9If you have one fingerprint, then that is the fastest way to unlock your phone. But if you have a second fingerprint, your phone now has to choose between two fingerprints to identify them. If you have a third, fourth, and fifth fingerprint in there, that means your phone has to try determine which of the five fingers it is that's trying to unlock the phone. That significantly slows things down.First off, the number of fingerprints you have.
- 10You can turn off your pass-code, which you'll have to enter the pass-code in order to do.However, the main purpose of this particular tutorial is this pass-code here.
- 11I do want to keep using my iCloud Key chain so I'll press 'Keep Using iCloud Key chain.' I don't want to change that. So my pass-code is now turned off. This can create a problem for you because watch what happens when I restart my phone.Now, I've turned off my pass-code.
- 12If you do not have these passcodes, you will not be able to access these services using your fingerprint. Once you turn off the four-digit PIN (or the more complicated password if that's what you had chosen), you also have difficulty accessing these services.When you restart the phone and go into the iTunes Store or anything else, you will be prompted for passwords or passcodes that you will need to enter.
- 13I simply get right into the phone. There isn't any more security.So I'm going to slide to unlock my phone.
- 14So you have to have the four-digit pass-code in order for your phone to work.So now if I tap on settings, and I go back to my Touch ID & Passcode, then turn on the security for my lock, it's going to ask me to set a pass-code again.
- 15Let's press the Home button to go back to the home screen.
- 16Hold it down, and then turn off the phone by sliding to power off.Now we're going to press the Lock button on the right side.
- 17Now let's restart the phone.
- 18My fingerprint will not be enough to get me into the phone. This means that if you setup a fingerprint ID to unlock your phone and you are of the belief that you'll be using that to get in and out of your phone, you will discover much to your dismay that you are very much mistaken. Your PIN code will be required every time you restart your phone. You will not be able to access it without that PIN code unless you use an iPass or workaround which we will discuss in another video.Now when it powers up, I will be asked for a pass-code.
- 19Let's press the Lock button one time, and swipe across.However, let me show you what I'm talking about.
- 20I can tap Cancel to cancel that.As you can see, there's a PIN code.
- 21"Enter Passcode - Touch ID requires your pass-code when iPhone restarts." No pass-code, no access to the phone.If I want to enter my fingerprint in, it tells me:
- 22So let's press the Lock button again.
- 23Swipe across.
- 24Then enter in your four-digit pass-code.
- 25Now let's lock the phone again.
- 26Let's unlock it.
- 27This is very important for you to remember. Otherwise, you might lock yourself outside of your phone.Now, we can press Home with my fingerprint and unlock it.
- 28Thanks for watching VisiHow. Have a great day and make sure you check out our great iPhone and tech videos!This concludes our tutorial on security improvements and features for the fingerprint scanner, and of course things to look out for to keep yourself from getting locked out of your phone.
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Recent edits by: Eng, Zack, Grimm
