Margaret, Auto Lock under Display and brightness locks the phone when there is no screen activity. If you touch the screen or something is running that is causing the screen to refresh, it won't lock.
Set it to five minutes, lay the phone down with nothing running and in five minutes it will lock. I have mine set to 5 minutes because it is only there in case I forget to manually lock the phone when I won't be using it for a while. Richard “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard My web site: https://www.turner42.com 🦅 -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 12:00 PM To: V iPhone list <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Can I Use Touch ID Instead of Pass Code 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. 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