I don’t want to get too political on this site, and I especially don’t want to help anyone do anything illegal, but a scary trend about our freedoms and facial recognition has popped up lately in the news.

Apparently, police have used a suspect’s face to unlock an iPhone while in custody. While I’m all for getting the truth and all that, I’m not really sure how I feel about this becoming a normal thing. I don’t want my privacy encroached on, and I don’t want other’s privacy encroached on either.

It’s even more upsetting that police are being advised not to look at phone in fear of disabling FaceID. Police don’t have any right to try to force a passcode out of someone, but holding up their phone to their face to unlock is lawful.

Police in the United States are being advised not to look at iPhone screens secured with Face ID, because doing so could disable facial identification
— Read on www.macrumors.com/2018/10/14/police-advised-dont-look-at-face-id-iphones/amp/

How to make your phone require a passcode

You can set up to require your phone to always require a passcode, if you so choose, in the settings apps under passcode. This will negate the use of FaceID though.

If you find yourself in times of trouble and you don’t want your face to be used against you, simply hold the volume up and side button down until the power off button comes up.

This will make your phone require the passcode to unlock and your face can’t be used against you.

Hopefully, no one is ever out in that position, but if you are, now you know.

You might also want to check out this shortcut that will tell Siri to start recording and send the video to a friend.

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