Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

If you reset/create an alternate appearance for faceid does that force a manual login for the services that use it? Because your device passcode lets you change all the faceid stuff… too lazy to mess around with it myself


Apps can choose [1] to tie have keys to the current set of enrolled biometric credentials (i.e. faces or fingers), and at least my password manager does that, as far as I remember from some testing.

Some apps don't, and some even react really poorly to a change of the biometric set (i.e. crashing at every Face ID use with no way to reset other than reinstalling), so I'm also not too keen on testing this on my main device.

One thing that surprised me during my limited testing was that Apple apparently doesn't make use of this capability for storing the "encrypted notes" passphrase, which effectively also reduces the security of that to that of the device passcode.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/secaccess...




Consider applying for YC's Fall 2026 batch! Applications are open till July 27.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: