Sieghard and All:
I want to keep Pass Code so it is available when needed and not totally
disable it.
I think 3 people have said that it is not a good idea to have the phone
powered off most of the time as I have been doing and I want to try
having it locked when I'm not using it to save the battery. I thought
powering off when it isn't being used was saving the battery.
I set it to never lock when I first got the phone months ago and I
forget where I did it. I've spent hours this afternoon and tried the
word lock in the settings app. I found one result for lock and never
and there were several time periods in minutes and I double tapped on 5
minutes as an experiment. It's been much longer than 5 minutes and my
home screen is still talking. I don't know if I missed a save button or
if I'm misunderstanding something. Could you please help me out and
give the proper location and time period to choose for the way I use the
phone?
I'm doing better with what I think is manual locking and the screen
doesn't talk and I can press the home button and speech resumes. It's
been a long day and I'm confused since I don't understand your saying "I
personally am not one of those and want my phone to lock relatively
quickly after I use it" since it went silent on me almost immediately.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Margaret
On 9/7/2022 1:04 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hello Margaret,
As I already said in my previous email, you have to have a passcode as backup
for Touch Id and you cannot unlock your phone after it was turned off with
Touch Id, only the passcode will work here.
Another place where only the passcode works is if you want to go back into
Settings > Touch Id and Passcode so even if you decide you want to turn off
Touch Id/passcode, you do have to enter it in order to get into that area of
settings.
Only you can know if you want to leave your phone open/unprotected. I assume if
you kept it mostly at home, you don't have sensitive information on it and you
don't plan to use Apple Pay then you could disable passcode/Touch Id.
As for the automatic locking of the phone that again is your preference. There
are others on this list who prefer to lock their phone manually by pressing the
side button, I personally am not one of those and want my phone to lock
relatively quickly after I use it because the more it is unlocked the more
battery is used up. But then of course I have about 80 apps on my phone and use
it constantly for anything from checking the time and the weather to checking
email, sending and receiving text messages to doing online banking and using a
variety of home automation devices like smart thermostats for my home and
business, I have video cameras and a monitored alarm system at my business and
have apps for that and I have video doorbell and cameras at home. Even if I
don't actively use my phone I probably am listening to an Audible book while I
am walking to or from work, at night before I go to sleep and so on. I never
counted how often I use my phone each day, but I guess it must be at least 1 to
3 or 4 times an hour so over the course of a day I'd aay probably anywhere from
40 to 60 times when I grab my phone and unlock it to do something.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Margaret
Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:04 PM
To: V iPhone list <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Can I Use Touch ID Instead of Pass Code
Good Evening:
The recent Face ID hit or miss thread caught my interest since, like the
original poster, I have an iPhone SE 2020 and like Touch ID.
The SE2020 is my first smart phone and is my back up with my land line being
my primary phone. I have the cell powered off most of the time and might power
it on for texting or to check the weather app etc. I have Apple ID, Touch ID,
and Pass Code set up and have purchased an app on the App Store. The way
things are set up, I have to type in my pass code when I power up. I can
usually do it correctly the first or second time so typing it isn't the
problem; I'd prefer to use Touch Id instead if possible. I am not in a work or
school situation and my house does not resemble Grand Central Station and I do
not have a lot of personal information on the cell.
The original post did say locked and not powered off. When I first got the cell and was
trying to follow along with a tutorial, the phone kept saying locked what sounded every
30 seconds and locked became a "dirty"
word and I never investigated what it was good for. I turned lock to never.
I'm using the phone a little more now and would be willing to change that if
someone could explain why it would be good when I use the phone so little. I'd
greatly appreciate knowing if I can keep the pass code for when I needed it for
other things and could use Touch ID when powering on.
Thanks,
Margaret
On Sat, 3 Sep 2022 18:14:54 -0500 SoonerAnnie <sooneran...@att.net> wrote:
Subject: Face ID hit or miss
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 18:14:54 -0500
From: SoonerAnnie <sooneran...@att.net>
Reply-To: viphone@googlegroups.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Hi all,
Subject pretty much says it all. I just bought an iPhone 13 mini and have set
up Face ID with no difficulty; however, it seems that it'll work two or three
times and then will require me to use my pass code to unlock my phone. I am
getting very tempted to put my SIM card back in my SE 20 lol. It's much easier
to just reach over and unlock it with my finger than to pick up my mini and
hope I can get it to unlock without having to type in my pass code. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
Sent from my iPhone
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