Mine is for five minutes. I'm thinking maybe the five minutes is five minutes after the last time the thing talked. I haven't tried it to see am good about turning mine off.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Thomas Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 3:00 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. 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 > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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